Is WestJet a safe airline?

WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provided scheduled and charter air service to more than 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Need two people in the flight deck in any way times. The Willful crash of a Germanwings flight at the French Alps last week put off alarm bells with lots of airline clients. Airlines and Governments across the world, such as Canada, instantly brought in principles to.

It is probably an improvement, but some travellers remain uneasy about low-cost carriers (December's AirAsia crash is still a recent memory).

Airlines, which strikes a range of Canadians into the sunny south every winter. In Reality, by some estimates cheap carriers today account for approximately one-quarter of Consumers are Obviously attracted to the cheaper Costs of All flights round the world. The question is: Why are they secure?

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The experts say yes. Quite safe.

Low-cost airlines in a lot of the world"need to stick to the exact same rigorous regimes and have exactly the exact same regulatory supervision" as other airlines,'' stated Robert Kokonis, president and managing director of AirTrav Inc., a Toronto-based company.

"During what you could call the civilized globe, these airlines are among the most secure on the market," Kokonis stated in a interview. Before last week's crash, "Germanwings had an exemplary safety record."

Kokonis explained an airline becomes a cheap carrier"by becoming more effective and flying one kind of airplane, such as... Ryanair, or with a pilot help clean the cottage or employing a check-in representative in the gate. They cut down on administrative overhead or on foods. That is what makes them cheap, not cutting corners on maintenance"

Delta (26th). European cheap carrier EasyJet has been rated 22nd, while Ryanair Was at the 32nd place. (Spirit didn't Get a standing because it Wasn't recorded in WestJet has been rated 19th in the world, previously American airlines United (30th) and According to the latest Security ratings in the Jet Airliner Crash Data and Analysis Centre at Germany, the world's most secure major airlines The top 60 biggest airlines in the world.)

"When you spend less in a budget airline, you do get what you pay for -- it is only less in relation to frills and client support, not less regarding security," aviation specialist Max Leitschuh advised the International Business Times. "Any airline anywhere in the world understands that a reputation for poor security is bad for the business. That standing will shed an airline much more cash than it'd [profit ] by cutting corners on security," explained Leitschuh, a transport analyst for iJET International.

Even Though Kokonis Does N't Have qualms about Cheap carriers in Middle course have prompted a massive requirement for low-cost aviation from the likes Europe or even North America, '' he noticed that criteria and regulatory supervision are Less strict in Southeast Asia, where population growth and a burgeoning of Indonesia-based Lion Air and AirAsia.

The five major airlines with the worst ratings from JACDEC were Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines (we know about their problems), Air India, China Airlines and Lion Air – all Asian-based airlines.

Here in Canada, WestJet advertises itself as "low-cost" but acts in many ways like a full-service carrier; Air Canada rouge advertises cheaper fares but describes itself as a "leisure" carrier versus "low-cost."

 

WestJet was flying since 1996 and hasn't had a fatality,'' spokesman Robert Palmer stated in an email. The airline training procedures and processes"are controlled by Transport Canada and are very similar to other carriers," and pilots"undergo comprehensive yearly medical examinations that are defined by Transport Canada and also include a mental health element."

"With respect to the well-being of pilots, Air Canada adheres to Canadian But hasn't undergone an accident since starting operations in July, 2013, said Renee Smith-Valade, vice-president of consumer experience.

"All Air Canada rouge pilots are members of the Air Canada Pilots Association and experience the Exact Same standard of instruction and Recommended practices and standards "

Aviation Regulations and ICAO Screening as pilots working Air Canada flights," Smith-Valade added.