July 2, 2025
WestJet adds a new route to Barcelona

Barcelona, June, xx, 2024: WestJet starts its operations at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport with the new route between Barcelona (BCN) and Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) with 4 weekly frequencies on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, from 29 June.

Timetable:
WS066       22:20  Halifax (YHZ)            09:50+1 Barcelona (BCN)
WS067       11:20 Barcelona (BCN)       14:50 Halifax (YHZ)

The flight will operate on a Boeing 737 MAX 8, which has a capacity of 174 seats.

WestJet currently operates summer service between its main hub in Calgary and Barcelona with 3 weekly frequencies. The new route via Halifax adds X per cent more connectivity from Barcelona.

Routes to North America are a priority according to the strategic objectives of the Barcelona Air Routes Development Committee (BARDC). Within the 2024-2025 Strategic Plan of the BARDC, the Barcelona - Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) route is considered a route that would stimulate this large market, and the BARDC has given it its support for it to be established in Barcelona. Canada is experiencing high demand and steady growth, driven by the attractiveness of Barcelona, commercial and institutional relations, and the values that Canadian citizens place on Catalan art, culture, gastronomy, and climate. As well as cruises departing from the Port of Barcelona to the whole Mediterranean in different formats.

In quantitative terms, in 2024, total indirect O&D traffic between Canada and Barcelona exceeded 167,000 passengers. The Halifax hub offers connectivity to the west of Canada and the east coast of the United States.

WestJet is a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Calgary. WestJet operates a network of domestic and regional services within Canada, as well as cross-border services to the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico.

The airline offers scheduled domestic and international flights to destinations in Canada, The US and Europe. In Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Edinburgh, London Heathrow & Gatwick and Paris).

Barcelona is the European city with the best connectivity within Europe as well as domestically in Spain.

Large corporations are based in Halifax such as CIBC, Apple, Google, Salesforce, Michelin, Siemens... which are complemented by companies in Barcelona/Catalonia such as Seat/Cupra, Caixabank, Microsoft, HP, Mango, Desigual, Grifols, Ferrer, Unilever, Pepsico, Amazon, ...

WestJet will ensure that all members of the community can travel in a safe, sustainable, efficient, reasonably priced, and attentive service environment.

 

WestJet press contact:                                                                  Comité de Desarrollo de Rutas Aérea
media@westjet.com de Barcelona (CDRA)
www.westjet.com                                                                          secretariat@barcelonalinks.org

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