CAL­GARY-Cana­di­an air­line, West­Jet on Sat­ur­day launched a dai­ly, non-stop ser­vice be­tween Toron­to and Port of Spain. The in­au­gur­al flight from Toron­to's Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ar­rived at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port at 6am on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. The West­Jet flight from Pi­ar­co to Toron­to leaves Trinidad at 7am and ar­rives in Toron­to at noon.

"We're very pleased to of­fer dai­ly ser­vice to Trinidad and To­ba­go, es­pe­cial­ly as the is­lands cel­e­brate the 50th an­niver­sary of their in­de­pen­dence," said Pe­ter Tong, West­Jet's Di­rec­tor of Sched­ule and Net­work Plan­ning.

"We look for­ward to fur­ther ce­ment­ing the strong ties that ex­ist be­tween the large Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty in Cana­da and their home­land. We al­so know that va­ca­tion­ers will en­joy the many events and at­trac­tions for which the is­lands are fa­mous, in­clud­ing Car­ni­val, the new Tourism Park 2012 and more."

"We are pleased once again to see West­Jet con­tin­u­ing to grow their ser­vice at Toron­to Pear­son," said Howard Bo­han, Vice Pres­i­dent, Avi­a­tion Ser­vices for the Greater Toron­to Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty. "It's great that our pas­sen­gers will now have ad­di­tion­al choic­es when plan­ning their up­com­ing va­ca­tions."

Full sched­ule de­tails and af­ford­able fares to Port of Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go, are avail­able by vis­it­ing west­jet.com, by call­ing West­Jet's Sales Su­per Cen­tre at 1-888-WEST­JET (937-8538) or through trav­el agents. Trinidad is West­Jet's 81st des­ti­na­tion and joins An­tigua, Cu­ra­cao, Cos­ta Ri­ca and Man­zanil­lo, Mex­i­co, as part of the air­line's 2012-2013 win­ter sea­son of­fer­ings.

West­Jet of­fers sched­uled ser­vice to 81 des­ti­na­tions in North Amer­i­ca, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. West­Jet pi­o­neered low-cost fly­ing in Cana­da, em­ploys 8,600 peo­ple across Cana­da and op­er­ates a fleet of 99 Boe­ing Next-Gen­er­a­tion 737 air­craft. Caribbean Air­lines an­nounced ear­li­er this month that its wide-body 767-ER300 air­craft be­gan op­er­a­tions be­tween Pi­ar­co, Trinidad and Pear­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Toron­to from No­vem­ber 3.

The air­craft has seat­ing ca­pac­i­ty of 30 pas­sen­gers in the busi­ness class cab­in and 191 seats in its econ­o­my class ser­vice. CAL CEO Robert Cor­bie said that the ad­di­tion to its fleet takes the air­line to a new al­ti­tude and plans are in place to im­me­di­ate­ly po­si­tion this air­craft across its route net­work with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on Lon­don and New York from Trinidad and Guyana as soon as fur­ther ap­provals from those au­thor­i­ties are re­ceived.

Cor­bie fur­ther stat­ed that CAL's pri­ma­ry fo­cus is to con­tin­ue en­hanc­ing the brand ex­pe­ri­ence by pro­vid­ing a high­er lev­el of com­fort and per­son­alised ser­vice to its cus­tomers.