TORONTO — WestJet Airlines Ltd. may soon return to LaGuardia Airport as an unexpected offshoot of a planned landing-spot swap between Delta Air Lines and US Airways.
The two U.S. carriers have been trying to gain regulatory approval to trade landing slots at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Washington’s Reagan International. The number of flights in and out of either airport is currently capped, and such a trade is seen as a way to increase service to either.
But the U.S. Department of Transportation said the carriers would have to give up some of their slots to other airlines before a trade could be made.
Earlier this week, Delta said it had reached a revised agreement with US Airways that would allow for four other carriers, including WestJet, to gain access to the coveted U.S. airport.
For WestJet, the deal, if approved, would mark a return to an airport with which it has a troubled past. The Calgary-carrier tried to break into the New York market with flights from Toronto in 2005, but cancelled its service shortly thereafter, in part because it failed to secure slots during peak hours.
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