Canadian airline company WestJet Group has acquired competing discount carrier Sunwing Airlines, completing a deal that had raised competitive concerns but that WestJet insists will benefit travellers ...

Canada’s WestJet will acquire low-cost vacation specialist Sunwing Airlines, along with its Sunwing Vacations tour operator business, shaking up the country’s budget holiday travel sector. “The ...

Under the merger, Sunwing's network of scheduled and charter flights is to be taken over by WestJet. Photo Credit: Sunwing Travel Group Canada's transport ministry has given the okay for WestJet ...

Canada’s WestJet completed its purchase of Sunwing and Sunwing Vacations on Monday, part of WestJet’s larger strategic pivot towards leisure travelers. Sunwing will continue to operate as independent ...

The issuance of the order is an important milestone in the process toward closing the transaction between WestJet and Sunwing The WestJet Group issued a statement following the Government of Canada’s ...

WestJet has agreed to buy Canadian counterpart Sunwing Airlines and tour operator Sunwing Vacations, broadening its exposure to leisure destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean as the market ...

Sunwing Airlines primarily flies within Canada or between Canada and warm destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico. Photo Credit: Sunwing Travel Group Canada's WestJet Group has entered into an ...

Sept 25 (Reuters) - The union for Sunwing Airlines pilots said it is urging Canada's government to stop a plan by the Ontario-based leisure carrier to hire foreign pilots this winter to help cope with ...

WestJet is attempting to initiate some consolidation in the Canadian market through a proposed agreement to acquire tour operator Sunwing. The move would position each company to bolster their ...

Canada’s Competition Bureau has potentially thrown cold water on WestJet’s proposed purchase of leisure and tour competitor Sunwing Airlines. In its report Wednesday, the regulator said the deal ...