{"id":413,"date":"2012-08-01T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2012-08-01T17:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:57:35","slug":"westjet-firms-order-for-45-dhc-8q-400s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/westjet-firms-order-for-45-dhc-8q-400s\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet firms order for 45 DHC-8Q-400s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-175\" title=\"Westjet Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/westjet-logo-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"Westjet Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/westjet-logo-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/westjet-logo-1024x256.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bombardier\u00a0 announced on August 1st, 2012 that the conditional order placed by WestJet for DHC-8Q-400s on May 1st, 2012, has been converted to a firm order for up to 45 DHC-8Q-Q400 NextGen aircraft. The airline&#8217;s order includes 20 firm aircraft and options on an additional 25.<\/p>\n<p>WestJet plans to launch their new regional airline in the second half of 2013. The airline will be the fifth operator and fourth airline in Canada to operate the DHC-8Q-400.<\/p>\n<p>Including WestJet&#8217;s order, Bombardier has booked firm orders for 454 Q400\u00a0and Q400 NextGen airliners and DHC-8Q-400s are in service with 40 operators in 30\u00a0countries, on six continents. DHC-8Q-400s\u00a0have carried more than 227 million passengers and\u00a0logged more than 3.5 million flight hours and over 3.8 million take-offs and landings in the program&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombardier\u00a0 announced on August 1st, 2012 that the conditional order placed by WestJet for DHC-8Q-400s on May 1st, 2012, has been converted to a firm order for up to 45 DHC-8Q-Q400 NextGen aircraft. The airline&#8217;s order includes 20 firm aircraft and options on an additional 25. WestJet plans to launch their new regional airline in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/westjet-firms-order-for-45-dhc-8q-400s\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,47],"tags":[109,238,237,241,98,82],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleet-update","category-news","category-orders","tag-dhc-8q-400","tag-fleet-update","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-q400","tag-westjet","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}