西捷航空

2023年6月22日

西捷航空首席執行官承諾票價不會上升由於航空公司合並6月22日,2023年由克裏斯托弗·雷諾茲加拿大媒體控股物理學博士學位,亞曆克西斯·馮·Hoensbroech度過了他職業生涯早期在波士頓谘詢集團與航空公司合作的策略。(照片:CNW集團西捷航空)西捷航空首席執行官亞曆克西斯·馮·Hoensbroech說把俯衝和Sunwing航空公司在其旗幟不會導致更高的機票,因為積分折扣航空公司還將壓低成本。加拿大的第二大航空公司能換出飛機更容易和擴大範圍的旅行者的目的地尋找廉價機票,首席執行官周三在一次電話采訪中說。“我不認為這將意味著更高的票價,”他說。“與規模,我們將能夠更有效地運作,也更可靠,因為如果出現錯誤,如果它是一個小航空公司就更難以恢複,”馮Hoensbroech說。廣告他指出廣泛的儲備池西捷航空飛機可以利用自己與俯衝和Sunwing,並分別計算16和18架飛機。如今幾乎所有的150多架飛機在西捷航空,俯衝和Sunwing品牌——數字並不包括地區性服務西捷航空安可——波音737年代,簡化了艦隊集成,使航空公司在其整個網絡服務社區更靈活,馮Hoensbroech說。“讓我們把維多利亞。從維多利亞到坎昆,可能沒有足夠的客人來填補Sunwing飛機載有189人。因此Sunwing不能夠飛翔。” But a WestJet aircraft could carry tour package customers as well as other travellers to the Yucatan resort town. Or it could hop from Victoria to Calgary and then funnel passengers from several Canadian cities onto a Calgary-Cancun flight, he said. Like rivals Flair Airlines and Porter Airlines, WestJet aims to vastly expand its business this decade, with 61 Boeing 737s on the order book over the next five years, plus an option for 20 more, the CEO said. That growth will cancel out any need to cut staff as a way to shore up efficiency, von Hoensbroech said from company headquarters at the Calgary airport. “We don’t intend to use this to reduce jobs,” he said of the mergers. Over the past two weeks, the 27-year-old carrier told employees it would shut down Swoop at the end of October and Sunwing Airlines over the next few years, folding them into WestJet’s main operation while maintaining Sunwing’s tour package division, with its 30-plus hotels in the tropics. Some experts have warned that the mergers would result in lower competition and higher airfares, particularly for sun destinations. In particular, travellers served by fewer carriers in smaller markets ranging from Saskatoon to St. John’s, N.L. may have to pay more, said aviation consultant Rick Erickson. But Barry Prentice, director of the University of Manitoba’s Transport Institute, said customers may not see a big change in ticket price. “It’s not like anybody’s going out of business. All they’re doing is they’re just amalgamating the airlines into one,” he said. The observation echoed von Hoensbroech’s point that the three airlines had not been looking to “compete internally” after WestJet acquired Sunwing’s airline and vacation segments on May 1. Nonetheless, WestJet and Sunwing comprise 37 per cent of seat capacity on direct flights to sun destinations, and 72 per cent from Western Canada, according to an October report from the Competition Bureau, which warned of steeper prices and fewer services, especially around package deals. Toronto-based Sunwing Vacations mainly serves Central and Eastern Canada, while WestJet and Swoop maintain a western focus, particularly when it comes to regional flights. Von Hoensbroech said WestJet may ramp up flights to Europe from Eastern Canada in the years to come, building on routes to London, Paris and other hot spots that it serves from Calgary with its handful of wide-body Boeing 787 Dreamliners. While competition remains intense and prices low on major Canadian routes such as Toronto-Vancouver, fares to sunny getaways, U.S. cities and European hot spots have all gone up over the past year. Out of more than 180 sun destinations — mostly in Mexico, California, Arizona, Florida and the Caribbean — prices rose in roughly 87 per cent of cases between March 2022 and March 2023, according to aviation data firm Cirium. In late February, round-trip fares from Canada were up 14 per cent to $368 for the United States, 19 per cent to $600 for Mexico and Central America, and 32 per cent to $1,015 for Europe compared to a year earlier, according to travel data firm Hopper Inc. Prices were also a lot higher than in February 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.