WestJet to launch first UK route

WestJet will launch its flrst flights to the UK from its hub in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 29 May.

WestJet will launch its Glasgow service on 29 May.
WestJet will launch its Glasgow service on 29 May.
The Halifax-Glasgow route will be operated using a Boeing 737-700 series aircraft adorned with a custom-designed WestJet tartan on its tail.

To mark the occasion of its first service to the United Kingdom, WestJet worked with the world’s last dedicated hand-crafted tartan mill, D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk, Scotland, to design a commemorative tartan in the airline’s distinctive blue and teal corporate colours. In addition to producing neck ties, cufflinks and scarves, WestJet also decaled two aircraft with the same tartan.

“We wanted to create something unique to celebrate our new service to Scotland and what could be more Scottish than creating our own company tartan?” said Lindsay Robertson, WestJet’s lead, Creative Services.

WestJet’s first flight from Halifax to Glasgow will depart Halifax Stanfield International Airport at 10:45 pm on 29 May. The daily, non-stop seasonal service runs until October 24, 2015.

WestJet launched its first transatlantic service in June 2014 between St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Dublin, Ireland. The daily, non-stop seasonal service resumed on 1 May this year, six weeks earlier than last year. It concludes on 23 October.

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