WestJet CEO Calls for End to Feds’ Vaccine Travel Mandate

A WestJet flight from Calgary arrives at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, N.S. on July 6, 2020. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

The CEO of Canadian airline company WestJet says it’s time for the vaccine mandate for air travellers and employees to be dropped.

“As vaccines are not preventing the spreading of the virus since [Omicron], there is no more logic to maintain it,” said Alexis von Hoensbroech on Twitter on May 31.