Pilots taxi a WestJet Boeing 737-700 aircraft to the runway for departure from Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Friday, May 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

WestJet halts bid to hire temporary foreign workers as pilots

by The Canadian Press April 17, 2025

written by The Canadian Press April 17, 2025

By Christopher Reynolds WestJet has walked back its bid to put temporary foreign workers in the cockpit. In an email, spokeswoman Julia Kaiser confirmed that the airline halted its hunt for overseas recruits for regional subsidiary WestJet Encore due to "economic uncertainty." The federal government...

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