WestJet Encore is a Canadian regional airline that began operations in
2013 as a subsidiary of WestJet Airlines, Ltd., the holding company for
WestJet Airlines. It is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Originally
limited to Western Canada, air service was later supplemented by routes
in the eastern half of the country. Pilot bases are in Calgary and
Toronto, where many WestJet Encore flights operate. Because WestJet
Airlines operates only larger aircraft such as the Boeing 737, the
company could not profitably serve many routes with less traffic.
WestJet Encore was created to use smaller planes, allowing the company
to serve these routes and to increase the frequency of flights on other
routes. The airline is the fourth largest operator of the Bombardier
Q400 NextGen aircraft (pictured), a variant of the Bombardier Dash 8.
The airline was initially staffed with non-union employees but the
pilots have since unionized.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestJet_Encore>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard
Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of
Quebec.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_St._Jean>
1859:
Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the
United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers
in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton>
1914:
Andrew Fisher, whose previous term as Prime Minister of
Australia oversaw a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until
the 1940s, became Prime Minister for the third time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher>
1980:
Solidarity, the Polish trade union, was founded as the first
independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Solidarity>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
warrant:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To protect, keep safe (from danger).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee
(of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone
something).
3. (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality,
value, etc.).
4. (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe
strongly.
5. (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to
do something).
6. (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/warrant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this:
the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize
that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
--William Carlos Williams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams>
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