{"id":192700,"date":"2025-03-30T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-aircraft-westjet-fleet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T04:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:30:15","slug":"this-is-the-oldest-aircraft-in-the-westjet-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=192700","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Oldest Aircraft In The WestJet Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/westjet\/\"  >WestJet<\/a><\/span> is the second-largest airline in Canada after the flag carrier,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254978\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-canada\/\"  >Air Canada<\/a><\/span>. It         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2011412\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/westjet-early-operations-story\/\" >was founded in 1994 and is the country&#8217;s low-cost carrier<\/a><\/span>. That is low-cost for Canada as         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182703\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/canada\/\"  >Canada<\/a><\/span> has comparatively expensive airfares compared to other regions like the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WestJet operates a reasonably modern fleet of aircraft with the oldest example being 21.7 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,8137,14319,1385,3274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-oldest-planes","category-sunwing-airlines","category-westjet","category-westjet-encore"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192701,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192700\/revisions\/192701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}