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Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 | 9:26 a.m.
Fast-growing Canadian discount air carrier WestJet has launched Las Vegas’ newest international air service, while customers of British Airways got an unexpected Christmas present – a reprieve on a planned strike that could have disrupted holiday travel.
Calgary-based WestJet, which already offers flights from McCarran International Airport to nine Canadian destinations, has begun nonstop service five times a week to and from Montreal.
Flights will leave Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at 9:45 a.m., local time, arriving in Las Vegas at 12:23 p.m., every day except Wednesday and Saturday. Return flights leave McCarran at 1:15 p.m., arriving in Montreal at 9:08 p.m.
The airline, which is developing a code-sharing agreement with Southwest Airlines, uses twin-engine Boeing 737 jets on the route. WestJet is introducing the flight with $159 one-way fares, not including taxes.
WestJet will compete on the route with Air Canada.
The airline, which has a fleet of 85 jets plans to take delivery on 50 more by 2016. WestJet already offers service from Las Vegas to Toronto, Ontario; Vancouver, British Columbia; Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, with seasonal service to Victoria and Kelowna, British Columbia; Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan.
Meanwhile, British Airways, which started a daily nonstop route between Las Vegas and London’s Heathrow International Airport in October, won a High Court injunction against its flight crew union today, averting a planned 12-day strike that could have disrupted holiday travel.
Bloomberg reported that London Judge Laura Cox ruled that a vote held by the Unite union was invalid because it had included people who had already agreed to leave the airline.
The injunction averts a planned strike that would have spanned the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
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Now that's the SPIRIT get out there and GET ER DONE!! Go promote Las Vegas for the jewel that she is. Noone ever gave you anything you have to fight for it. Like I said in the past the City needs to promote Las Vegas more. In past months we've managed to secure a direct flight from Great Britian to here, now Canada. How about a flight from Japan or anywhere people are looking for a little excitement. Lot's of American's don't much about Asia except for the fact were looseing our jobs to them. Asia has money, BIG MONEY and if anyone knows anything about Asian's, they love to gamble. The Chinese love board games and games of chance. The Vietnamese love horse raceing and card games, There's lots of money out they all we need to do is bring American dollars back home to America. I have to steal this addage I saw in a movie once. The nationality I've change for those that saw the movie but the thought is the same, we were Ameri-can's not Ameri-cant's. We need to get off our butt's and go get the money.
Right on Tungchow, right on Vegas!
Bring in our Canadian friends and lets how them a good time!
BULLET TRAIN NOW !!
Thats great cause we're moving to Las Vegas and my children and I travel to Montreal 2/3 times a year.
Do Canadas have a lot of $$$$
tungchow,LAS used to have non-stop flights from Tokyo NRT with JAL . The 747-400 would then continue to LAX then back to NRT. Singapore also tried Hong Kong non-stops with the 777-200ER,but also stopped. I'm not sure if Korean still flies to LAS with the 777-200ER. If not,all visitors from The Orient will have to come via LAX or SFO.