Westjet Airline Career
We are proud to be Canada's highest-rated airline for customer service, powered by an award-winning culture of care and recognized as one of the country's top employers. We offer scheduled service to 100 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe.
Looking for a great place to work? A place where an award-winning culture means empowerment, teamwork and a passion for what you do? Then think WestJet. It's a great place to land.
As we pursue our vision to be one of the top five airlines in the world, WestJet is committed to growing responsibly and ensuring that we are an environmentally sustainable airline. We recognize that as our operations grow, inevitably, so does our environmental footprint.
We currently have one of the youngest and most fuel-efficient fleets in North America. According to Boeing data, fuel efficiency and emissions from our Next-Generation 737 aircraft (600, 700 and 800 series) are approximately 15 to 30 per cent lower on a per seat basis than the fleet of 737-200 series aircraft we replaced between 2000 and 2003.
We are a North American leader in the use of blended winglet technology. In 2003, we began installing winglets – wing-tip extensions that reduce fuel consumption by up to 2.7 per cent per flight on our 737 700 and 800-series aircraft. In 2004, we completed retrofitting all 700 series aircraft. Since then, all of our new 700 and 800 series aircraft arrive preconfigured with winglets.
Since 2007, WestJet has only purchased aircraft equipped with CFM56-7B turbofan engines. The advanced configuration and improved technologies of the tech-insertion features in these engines provide up to one per cent better fuel consumption over the engine's lifecycle.
At a cost of approximately $100 million, the WestJet head office building in Calgary that opened in 2009 was constructed to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards and subsequently awarded a gold LEED certification in 2011. The innovations in our six-storey home base offer numerous efficiencies including maximized natural light, rainwater reclamation tanks, geothermal heating and efficient fixtures.
WestJet uses numerous types of ground equipment to support our operations and maintenance, ranging from aircraft tugs to catering trucks and vehicles used to transport our crew from the airport to our campus facility. Fuel consumption of this equipment is highly dependent on activity and weather conditions.
A new addition to WestJet's ground fleet is the rechargeable lithium polymer battery-powered baggage tug. The tug, which began operating at the Calgary International Airport on October 2011, successfully performed throughout the winter in frigid temperatures without any significant incidents. Baggage was transported to and from the aircraft on approximately 11 flights per day on a single battery charge. At the end of 2014, WestJet had 14 battery-operated vehicles at our operation in Calgary and Whitehorse, with more planned for 2015. Some of these vehicles are positioned in airports to comply with their directive to only operate non-petroleum based fuel-powered tugs in the airport's newly constructed ground-level baggage areas.
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