Confessions of a YYC Travel Junkie

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser

Does anybody know why Westjet hasn't released any flights past 22-December, 2026?

I booked in 2024 at 365+ days in advance, but thought that perhaps they have moved booking back to only 330 days in advance. however 330 days from today is Dec 30.

It's not just one route, I checked Paris, Narita, Toronto.

They seem to do 330 days in advance, but pricing gets added manually some time later. So if you look in their calendar it says "N/A" for dates from Dec 23 to Jan 1st, which is 330 days from today. The dates after Jan 1 are just blank. I think someone manually has to add pricing. When I've looked in the past it seems to usually happen about once a week. I suspect pricing for Christmas/New Years gets more scrutiny so they're taking longer.

No insider information, just what I've observed as someone who books a lot of flights ~11 months out.

[JackJack]

Air Canada has their pricing released over that same time period. WestJet is likely manually going in and changing all pricing to be at Y fares. That's my guess.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by JackJack

Air Canada has their pricing released over that same time period. WestJet is likely manually going in and changing all pricing to be at Y fares. That's my guess.

Westjet always manually adds it in later - I've checked on other random times (middle of october, may, etc) and there is often a week worth of "N/A" at the end of the schedule.