Westjet - Amesbury Town F.C. (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clive Beddoe, (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Co-Founder) A WestJet Boeing 737-700WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX: WJA) is a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta that flies within Canada and to the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. WestJet is the second largest Canadian carrier behind Air Canada. WestJet is a rarity in the airline industry in that it is non-unionized. WestJet plans to be one of the world's top five most profitable international airlines by 2016. WestJet is a public company with over 7,500 employees and 1.2 billion USD market capitalization. Founded on February 29, 1996 by Clive Beddoe, David Neeleman, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan and Donald Bell, WestJet aimed to follow the same path as Southwest Airlines and Morris Air, as a low-cost carrier. The airline was originally intended to operate solely in Western Canada, hence its name. On February 29, 1996, the first WestJet flight (a Boeing 737) departed. At that time, the airline served Calgary (the airline's home city and headquarters), Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, and Winnipeg with a fleet of three Boeing 737-200 aircraft and two-hundred and twenty employees. By the end of that same year, they had included Regina, Saskatoon, and Victoria. In 1997, service to Abbotsford was added. 1997 also marked the one millionth passenger carried by the airline. In early 1999, Beddoe stepped down as WestJet's CEO and was replaced by former Air Ontario executive Steve Smith. In July 1999, WestJet made its initial public offering of stock at 2.5 million shares, opening at $10 per share. The same year, the cities of Thunder Bay, Grande Prairie, and Prince George were added to WestJet's route map. In 2000, WestJet CEO Steve Smith was released from WestJet after 18 months in the p... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=153851