Sunwing
A Sunwing 737 on approach. Photo: Jason Jagoe
At A Glance
Pilots Joined ALPA: 2024
Number of pilots: 490
Pilot bases: Vancouver, B.C.; Calgary, Alb.; Toronto Ont.; Québec City and Montréal, Qué. Winter Seasonal Bases in Edmonton, Alb., and Winnipeg Man.
Headquarters: Toronto, Ont.
Operations: Sunwing Airlines offers scheduled and charter services from Canada and the United States to destinations within the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America in the winter months. During the summer months, in addition to some Caribbean flying, the company does seasonal leases for European partners.
Fleet: 18 B-737s with flexes of up to 40 B-737s during peak winter travel utilizing short term dry-lease contracts.
Sunwing Airlines was founded in 2005 as a leisure carrier to be the exclusive provider of lift for Sunwing Vacations using a fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft. Today, Sunwing Airlines offers direct flights from departure points in Canada and the United States to over 45 of the most popular vacation destinations across the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Florida. Sunwing Vacations is now the largest packaged holiday company in the Canadian market.
Outside of the peak winter travel season, Sunwing Airlines temporarily stations a number of its pilots and aircraft in Europe under wet-lease contracts with its partner airlines, TUI and Smartwings. Pilots are seasonally deployed to various European cities to operate flights to Europe’s leading holiday destinations. In 2022, Sunwing Airlines and Sunwing Vacations were acquired by the WestJet Group of Companies. Sunwing Airlines is currently undergoing an integration process to be fully merged with WestJet Airlines by the fall of 2025.
