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Aircraft purchase may bring WestJet back to the Sault

Yesterday in Calgary, executives of WestJet were kicking the tires on a 100-seat Embraer 170 jet (shown).
David Helwig
David Helwig
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Yesterday in Calgary, executives of WestJet were kicking the tires on a 100-seat Embraer 170 jet (shown).

If the no-frills airline decides to buy the smaller Brazilian-made jets, it could open the door to restoration of WestJet service to the Sault, the Globe and Mail is reporting today.

"One-hundred-seat jets are very much a possibility" for WestJet, a source close to the company told the Globe's Keith McArthur.

"It would allow us back into the Sudburys and Sault Ste. Maries of the world," the source said.

To read the Globe and Mail article, please click here.

To see a larger-format photograph of an Embraer 170, please click here.

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David Helwig's journalism career spans seven decades beginning in the 1960s. His work has been recognized with national and international awards.
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