WestJet Raising Prices Due to Air Traffic Control Costs

Canada’s air traffic operator raises rates 29.5 percent due to cash flow collapse amid COVID-19

A WestJet aircraft taking off from Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on May 13, 2019. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

WestJet will raise its domestic traveller surcharges because of an increase in air traffic control service rate, says the airline.

Starting Sept. 5, WestJet will increase its surcharge for air traffic control services that travellers pay on their domestic flights.