WestJet links up to Global Explorer round-the-world fare

WestJet, Canada's "most preferred airline", is now participating in the Global Explorer round-the-world fare offered by all member airlines of the oneworld? alliance and selected other carriers.

WestJet's network of more than 80 destinations in North America, Central America and the Caribbean is now featured as part of Global Explorer, which is one of the most popular round-the-world fares available globally. 

WestJet's addition to Global Explorer brings on board almost 25 additional airports in Canada to the map served by Global Explorer (for details, see below).  With seven destinations across Canada already covered by Global Explorer, it means the round-the-world fare now features 30 Canadian gateways. 

This takes the worldwide reach of Global Explorer - which offers simple, flexible, and great value round-the-world travel for trips of up to one year long - to some 900 destinations in 150 countries. 

The round-the-world fare also covers all routes offered by oneworld's existing member airlines - airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Qantas, Royal Jordanian and Russia's S7 plus some 30 affiliated carriers, including Austria's Niki, OpenSkies, South Africa's Comair, Denmark's SUN-AIR, Iberia Express, Iberia Regional Air Nostrum, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador, LAN Peru, and QantasLink.  It also features Malaysia Airlines, which will join oneworld on 1 February 2013.

Global Explorer includes too a number of airlines that have no links with oneworld - Aer Lingus, Air Pacific, Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Airlines sister, Gulf Air and Meridianafly.  Flights carrying the Qantas code but operated by Air Tahiti Nui, Jetstar, South African Airways and Vietnam Airlines are included too, expanding the reach covered by the fare further still. 

WestJet's eight code-share partner airlines include four oneworld members - American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines.        
Global Explorer is one of two round-the-world fares offered by oneworld.  The alliance's other round-the-world fare is oneworld Explorer.  This includes travel on the alliance's existing member airlines and affiliates only.  Uniquely, prices are based on the number of continents visited, rather than on the distance flown. 

oneworld offers one of the most extensive ranges of alliance fares.   For those who don't want to fly all around the world, these include Circle fares for traveling through several continents without actually circumnavigating the globe and Visit passes for each continent.  

The new Canadian airports WestJet adds to Global Explorer include:

• Alberta's Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie.
• British Colombia's Abbotsford, Comox, Kamloops, Kelowna, Prince George and Victoria,
• Manitoba's Winnipeg.
• Newfoundland and Labrador's Deer Lake and St Johns.
• New Brunswick's Moncton.
• Nova Scotia's Sydney.
• Northwest Territories' Yellowknife.
• Ontario's London, Thunder Bay, Toronto Hamilton and Windsor.
• Prince Edward Island's Charlottetown.
• Quebec, in Quebec.
• Saskatchewan's Regina and Saskatoon.
• Yukon's Whitehorse.

Destinations in Canada already covered by Global Explorer include: Calgary, Halifax, Kitchener, Montreal Trudeau, Ottawa, Toronto Pearson and Vancouver.

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