{"id":64210,"date":"2025-08-12T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64210\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:53:06","slug":"westjet-issue-causing-flight-delays-in-canada-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64210\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet issue causing flight delays in Canada: airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 10:34AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 9:38AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Several airports say flights have been delayed due to an issue involving WestJet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa International Airport, Toronto Pearson Airport, Saskatoon International Airport, Montr\u00e9al\u2013Trudeau International Airport and Calgary International Airport are among those who reported issues this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saskatoon and Montreal\u2019s airports both say it\u2019s due to \u201cnetwork-wide technical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis morning, WestJet experienced a temporary system outage that delayed the handover of aircraft from maintenance personnel for scheduled operation,\u201d a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWestJet expedited efforts to resolve the technological issue and a return to normal operations is underway. We apologize to any guests who may have experienced a disruption to their travel plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto and Montreal airports have since reported that the issue has been resolved but are encouraging customers to check their flight status. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a breaking news story. More details to follow\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News\u2019 Michael Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 10:34AM EDT Published:\u00a0August 12, 2025 at 9:38AM EDT Several airports say flights have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-64210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}