Monthly Archives: September 2013

External Blog: WestJet flying to new heights

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West Jet plans to test out the transatlantic market next spring with flights from St. John’s and Dublin. This adds increasing pressure towards Air Canada as West Jet now becomes a competitor to them for the European travel market. West Jet claims that From Dublin, guests can access low costs flights to over 100 cities in Europe.

The only problem with this is West Jet only offers a direct flight to Dublin from Toronto. Cities like Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary would need to connect in St. John’s. This adds a lack of convenience amongst some customers and would cause them to take their services to other competitors.

In addition, West Jet does not offer the Boeing 767 or 787, but instead are known for their massive fleet of Boeing 737’s. This being the case, experts say West Jet would need to acquire some of the wider bodied 767’s to accommodate for the European flights.

The era of the low cost but efficient West Jet carriers may be coming to a close in the near future as they try to expand into the world wide market. But can they overtake Air Canada?

Chris Sorenson’s blog for Maclean’s: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/11/15/westjet-bound-for-europe/

Pictures: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-to-go-transatlantic-with-flights-to-dublin-1.2427850

 

Jake Sin’s Blog 1: Ethics

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With many businesses making headlines nowadays, ethics is usually to blame. A particular company, Nike, has been at the center of all these headlines for many years now. They’re one of the world’s top sports clothing brands, but for years Nike have been dogged by allegations of sweatshops and child labour. Now workers making Nike’s Converse shoes at a factory in Indonesia say they are being physically and mentally abused.

According to Huffington post, workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. To make matters worse, Nike, the brand’s owner, admits that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but says there was little it could do to stop it.

Looking at this from an ethical point of view I believe it is unacceptable for this to be happening within such a huge company. By saying there is little Nike can do to stop this shows that Nike may not care for its employees as highly as they should. In a time where ethics are more important than ever there is no reason why these actions can’t be fixed.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/nike-faces-new-worker-abuse-indonesia_n_896816.html