Code Sharing Travel: Southwest Making Nice with WestJet
Southwest Airlines has been shopping for an international partner for some time now, a search that was likely accelerated earlier this year after ATA collapsed. Now the search is over: The low cost carrier just announced that it will initiate a code sharing agreement with WestJet by the end of 2009.
Though WestJet flies to a few destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean, a press release from the two airlines emphasizes the US-Canada link as the big part of this tie-up. The Canadian carrier also goes to Hawaii via Vancouver.
All that said, no specifics on routes or schedules have been released just yet, and the airlines also remind us that some of the details are subject to government approval. No wonder the deal with take 18 months to finalize.
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