WG SWG Commenced operations November 17, 2005 Company slogan "Fly Better" Founder Colin Hunter Number of employees 1,500 (2015) Parent organization Sunwing Travel Group | SWG SUNWING Destinations 73 Headquarters Toronto, Canada Founded 2005 Fleet size 36 | |
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Sunwing Airlines Inc. is a Canadian low-cost airline headquartered in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Sunwing Airlines offers scheduled and charter services from Canada and the United States to destinations within the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America. During the summer months, the company offers domestic services across Canada as well as services to European cities. It is a subsidiary of Sunwing Travel Group and its main Canadian bases are Toronto Pearson International Airport and Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The company also operates seasonal flight services from over 30 local Canadian gateways including Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, Calgary International Airport, Vancouver International Airport, and Edmonton International Airport.
History
By 2004, the Sunwing Vacations had become the second largest tour operator in the Ontario area. That year, a former employee of Skyservice, Mark Williams, approached the CEO of Sunwing Travel Group, Colin Hunter and asked if he wanted to start an airline. A few weeks later official plans to launch the airline were in place. In November 2005, Sunwing Airlines flew its inaugural flight, a Boeing 737-800 that departed from Toronto Pearson airport. In November 2006, the company flew its first flight out of the Montreal-Trudeau airport.
By 2008, Sunwing Airlines grew its operations to include 29 cities.
In 2015, it was announced that Sunwing had finalised a deal to acquire two Boeing 737-800 and four Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft from Air Lease Corporation in a $350m contract. The aircraft are due to be delivered over a four-year period from early 2016.
Destinations
Sunwing Airlines flies to a wide range of vacation destinations across the Caribbean, Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America. The most popular destinations include Varadero, Punta Cana, Cancun and Montego Bay. Its parent company, the Sunwing Travel Group, is Cuba's largest travel provider internationally, sending over 700,000 vacationers to the destination each year.
In Canada, the airline operates several domestic routes, including Toronto to Vancouver which operated daily as of summer 2015, as well as maintaining year-round service to its most popular destinations. Other connections include Stephenville, Gander and St John's from Toronto. As of summer 2015, the airline operated service to Caribbean destinations from Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus, Houston, Lansing, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Rockford.
Fleet
The Sunwing Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):