WestJet

WestJet is a regularly scheduled passenger airline that flies mainly around western Canada.

Begun in 1996 by Clive Beddoe, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan andDonald Bell, WestJet tried to follow the sae path as Southwest Airlines and Morris Air: flying a low fare, all jet fleet airline and becoming successful at that. Morris Air went bankrupt shortly after WestJet was created, however.

February 29, [[1996] was the first time a WestJet Boeing 737 jet took off to the skies. At that time, the airline served Winnipeg, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. By 1997, they had included Victoria, regina and Saskatoon to that list of cities, and in 1997 also, Abbottsford became a WestJet city.

In 1999 a milestone was reached when WestJet was able to offer it's first public sharing at 2.5 million shares, and in 2000, the airline expanded to Canada's eastern region, reacing Hamilton, Moncton and Ottawa, and coosing Hamilton as the airline's eastern region hub. That year, Beddoe, Hill, Morgan and Bell were given the Ernst & Young entrepeneur of the year award in Canada because of their contribution to the Canadian airline industry. In 2001, expansion kept on going, to include Fort McMurray, Comox, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thompson and Brandon. The airline's four creators also received another entrepeneur award, the newest one being given in Monaco. In 2002 the airline added two new eastern Canadian destinations in the cities of London (Canada) and Toronto

The airline still flies a fleet that is exclusively made up of Boeing 737's