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Originally Posted by Zmonkey
WestJet also won a lot of corporate accounts from Air Canada from Edmonton and Calgary when they moved to Toronto. Business travelers wanted Pearson. Petro Canada for example flew everyone through Pearson on Air Canada when going to there operations in Mississauga and Oakville. WestJet got some of that business when flipping over to Pearson.
Much of WestJet's east Coast growth and profitability came from being at Pearson.
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Toronto is now WestJets largest airport by passenger count, it passed Calgary years ago. I am surprised people are questioning WestJet's decision to go to Toronto. It was clearly the right one.