Westjet Delays

• WestJet cancels more than 500 flights over 5 days leaving customers demanding compensation

  The Calgary-based airline reported upwards of 530 cancellations from Jan. 11 to 2 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2023, citing the effects of five days of consecutive extremely cold temperatures.

  Consumer

  Jan 15, 2024
  
• More WestJet flight cancellations, disruptions anticipated after weekend outage

  Flight cancellations continued Monday after WestJet's system-wide outage over the weekend led to halted flights, long customer service wait times and other disruptions.

  Canada

  Nov 7, 2022
  
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• WestJet travellers frustrated as IT outage causes delays, redirected flights

  An issue with the cooling of the data centre, causing a complete outage of their IT system for nine hours for the entire airline and many travellers stranded.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2022
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• WestJet resolves ‘technical difficulties’ for check-ins, website

  WestJet and some major U.S. airlines are dealing with operations issues and in some cases long lines and delays due to technical problems.

  Canada

  Apr 29, 2019
• WestJet and other U.S. airlines resolves technical issues that caused check-in delays

  Passengers looking to check in to WestJet flights — as well as other major U.S. airlines — are facing major delays as the companies saw technical difficulties on Tuesday morning.

  Canada

  Mar 26, 2019
• Toronto woman returning from vacation experiences 2 days of delays, diversions

  "It was pretty bad. People were really upset," Clark said.

  Consumer

  Feb 16, 2019
• WestJet says system outage partially resolved, experiencing some delays

  WestJet recommended passengers arrive early at the airport and check their flight status ahead of time because of the problems.

  Canada

  May 30, 2018