Any updated info or thoughts on this? What is the deal with WestJet upgrade times? They seem to have the longest upgrade time in North America and it still doesn't sound like its going to improve. For those who say the upgrade time will decrease (ie less than ~10 years) can you please provide the da...

Is this actually a merger? To my understanding WestJet purchased Sunwing. Plus WestJet utilizes it's pilots much more efficiently than Sunwing so I would be surprised if WestJet doesn't want all the Sunwing pilots to move over. So maybe DOH but half of the pilot list gets cut from the start?

Can someone explain to me (a noob) why upgrade times are so vastly different between Air Canada and Westjet? I would assume WestJet has much more turnover creating more room to upgrade so how can Air Canada be a couple years and Westjet be a decade?