Does anyone off the top of their head know where westjet runs their 737-600's? Much thanks

They are used throughout the network. YYZ-YVR/YYC, East Coast, LGA etc.

All over the place. See: https://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/B736 for which routes they're currently on. This includes: YVR-YYC, YYC-LAX, YWG-PSP, YYZ-YVR & YEG-YYZ. So only 5/13 are currently in the air.

WS have gotten adept at matching capacity to demand nowadays like other airlines. For example, I've seen the daily YWG-YOW flight be a 738 one day, a 73G the following day and then a 736 the day after that.

I forgot WS had the 600's, it's the only commercial version of the 737 I have not flown on, I'm in Portland Or, so a hop to YVR & then a WS 736 to YYC & home on AS. But it sounds like you can't always be assured it'll be a 600, even if one is scheduled, hummmm,

IIRC - none have the updates interiors - having said that, the -600 is the one I try to avoid.

One was doing the YEG-LAS last Saturday.

ACDC8 wrote:

IIRC - none have the updates interiors - having said that, the -600 is the one I try to avoid.

One was doing the YEG-LAS last Saturday.

I flew the WJ 736 when they were new. I loved them. Then again, my basketball playing child was in diapers then...

They're used all over the network.. As for the interior, as far as I know they'll all be updated with WJ Connect this year.

They fly them to Phoenix from quite a few Canadian cities. Saskatoon, Regina, et al.

YVR-LAX from prior experience in 2015 on morning runs

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WJtter wrote:

They're used all over the network.. As for the interior, as far as I know they'll all be updated with WJ Connect this year.

Good to know

lightsaber wrote:

I flew the WJ 736 when they were new. I loved them. Then again, my basketball playing child was in diapers then...

Noticeably less leg room compared to the updated interior

I personally photographed one at JFK. Westjet really does switch it up as that route can easily be either a 600, 700, or 800.

ACDC8 wrote:

lightsaber wrote:

I flew the WJ 736 when they were new. I loved them. Then again, my basketball playing child was in diapers then...

Noticeably less leg room compared to the updated interior

To each their own; for me, it's not as though I'm MOVING IN to the airplane. I'm just going to sit in a chair for a couple hours.
And the performance of the -600 can be... thrilling. At least, thrilling as far as you can get from a civilian airliner.
I was once on a nearly full 737-600 doing a FRA-ARN run on SAS (of course) that went from tarmac to FL410 in 18 minutes.

Admittedly, the plane is under-square (more wing span than fuselage length), so she tend to find bumps that other birds would ignore!

Sometimes they will run the -600's through Abbotsford.

I see them quite often at LGA.

Flew on one YYC-LAS in February 2017. Then I got Frozen Plane on the way home. I was way more excited for Frozen Plane lol

They used to do YLW-YVR until they got the Q400's.

AA737-823 wrote:

To each their own; for me, it's not as though I'm MOVING IN to the airplane. I'm just going to sit in a chair for a couple hours.
And the performance of the -600 can be... thrilling. At least, thrilling as far as you can get from a civilian airliner.
I was once on a nearly full 737-600 doing a FRA-ARN run on SAS (of course) that went from tarmac to FL410 in 18 minutes.

Admittedly, the plane is under-square (more wing span than fuselage length), so she tend to find bumps that other birds would ignore!

I agree, it is to each their own. For me, I prefer sitting in a seat where my knees aren't squeezed up against the seat back in front on me. As far as the -600 being more thrilling, personally I don't find it any more thrilling than any other 737. Now, the -200 on the other hand, well that one is simply awesome

Canuck600 wrote:

They used to do YLW-YVR until they got the Q400's.

Its getting rarer and rarer to fly out of YLW on a WS 737 these days (at least on the YVR/YYC/YEG runs) - but all three types were/are used on a regular rotation between YLW and YVR, YYC and YEG.

I've photographed one or two WS 736s at SFO on their trips from YVR, although SFO is entirely seasonal for WS as a whole.

The -600s saving grace has been the drop in fuel prices. It remains to be seen whether WS would choose to keep them around if oil were at $100+ per barrel. Assuming the lease price would be right they might, but that price would have to be favourable, as WS has made an effort in recent years to get rid of some older aircraft and replacing them with newer ones (such as the 10 -700s that went to Southwest).

It does have its niche, doing destinations that would be a light load for a -700, but there are minimal cost savings flying a -600 vs a -700. If anything, the -600s are heavier on a per passenger basis because they still have the 2004 plush grey seats / seatback tv interior (which is about a 2000 lb difference over an airplane in the new slimline seats), and have less baggage space, which makes a difference on flights where they are close to being full as bags do get bumped. So the savings really is in freeing an aircraft with more appropriate seating for any given flight.

You will often see them doing the shorter range stuff, which out of YYZ means YOW/YUL/YHZ/LGA plus fillin/g in on the occasional Florida flight (although remember that smaller baggage compartment - a definite challenge).,Out of YYC they generally do the Western Triangle or other hour plus segments between BC and Alberta destinations plus hop-scotching across the prairies, filling in to California, Vegas, and possibly the new DEN flight. In the last year or two I've also seen it going to Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and doing trans-cons YVR/YYC/YEG - YYZ/YOW/YUL. Often its presence indicates a route is doing poorly, such as the recently cancelled YYZ-Gander, or YYC - Thunder Bay. On the flip side, I've even seen it do YYC-JFK, which is normally a reasonably full load of international connections, on light, midweek days in the off season. Often they are the active spare in the system, and having them has allowed WS to send in the -700s and -800s to KFC for the new seating configuration plus bumping up the seat capacity to 134/174.

As someone noted earlier in this thread. WS has gotten quite adept at putting the -600s in the right spot in their network.

AirNovaBAe146 wrote:

The -600s saving grace has been the drop in fuel prices. It remains to be seen whether WS would choose to keep them around if oil were at $100+ per barrel. Assuming the lease price would be right they might, but that price would have to be favourable, as WS has made an effort in recent years to get rid of some older aircraft and replacing them with newer ones (such as the 10 -700s that went to Southwest).

It does have its niche, doing destinations that would be a light load for a -700, but there are minimal cost savings flying a -600 vs a -700. If anything, the -600s are heavier on a per passenger basis because they still have the 2004 plush grey seats / seatback tv interior (which is about a 2000 lb difference over an airplane in the new slimline seats), and have less baggage space, which makes a difference on flights where they are close to being full as bags do get bumped. So the savings really is in freeing an aircraft with more appropriate seating for any given flight.

You will often see them doing the shorter range stuff, which out of YYZ means YOW/YUL/YHZ/LGA plus fillin/g in on the occasional Florida flight (although remember that smaller baggage compartment - a definite challenge).,Out of YYC they generally do the Western Triangle or other hour plus segments between BC and Alberta destinations plus hop-scotching across the prairies, filling in to California, Vegas, and possibly the new DEN flight. In the last year or two I've also seen it going to Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and doing trans-cons YVR/YYC/YEG - YYZ/YOW/YUL. Often its presence indicates a route is doing poorly, such as the recently cancelled YYZ-Gander, or YYC - Thunder Bay. On the flip side, I've even seen it do YYC-JFK, which is normally a reasonably full load of international connections, on light, midweek days in the off season. Often they are the active spare in the system, and having them has allowed WS to send in the -700s and -800s to KFC for the new seating configuration plus bumping up the seat capacity to 134/174.

As someone noted earlier in this thread. WS has gotten quite adept at putting the -600s in the right spot in their network.

I think the entire WS 736 fleet is company owned. So regardless of the price of oil and with zero resale value compared with the 10 73Gs they sold off to WN, they'll be with WS until they're 'old and grey'. YYZ-YQX and YYC-YQT are cancelled? I thought those were summer-seasonal routes? Are they not loaded for summer 2018?

The 736s have been showing up at IWA fairly regularly this winter season, particularly on the YEG-IWA route.

Network wide. Lots of YYZ-YUL shuttle, the Prairies destinations and as far as YVR-YYZ or YYC-LGA.. but don't think they go any of the vacations spots in Mexico or the Carribeans.

I flew on one three months ago from YYZ to LGA, after spending a nice weekend in Toronto. Nice flight. I was impressed at how quickly the airplane lifted off the ground at take off. I believe that Westjet is the only airline in North America (Canada and USA combined) flying that variant of the 737. I can say that I have flown on a rare bird. This is the only flight on a 600 I have taken in my whole life. The outbound flight LGA-YYZ, it was a 700.

Only variant of the 737 (besides the -100) I haven't flown on, so need a trip eventually on one. I know for a fact LGA gets them a lot, wish they sent them to Florida though.

TS-IOR wrote:

Network wide. Lots of YYZ-YUL shuttle, the Prairies destinations and as far as YVR-YYZ or YYC-LGA.. but don't think they go any of the vacations spots in Mexico or the Carribeans.

That is probably the most efficient way to say it, versus my wordy response earlier.
Let me also add ETOPS Hawaii and the Ireland/UK flights also, and then I believe we've covered the places where the WS B736s don't go.

American 767 wrote:

I flew on one three months ago from YYZ to LGA, after spending a nice weekend in Toronto. Nice flight. I was impressed at how quickly the airplane lifted off the ground at take off. I believe that Westjet is the only airline in North America (Canada and USA combined) flying that variant of the 737. I can say that I have flown on a rare bird. This is the only flight on a 600 I have taken in my whole life. The outbound flight LGA-YYZ, it was a 700.

There’s another US operator of the 737-600 that flies them from LAS. You just can’t buy a ticket on them.

AirNovaBAe146 wrote:

TS-IOR wrote:

Network wide. Lots of YYZ-YUL shuttle, the Prairies destinations and as far as YVR-YYZ or YYC-LGA.. but don't think they go any of the vacations spots in Mexico or the Carribeans.

That is probably the most efficient way to say it, versus my wordy response earlier.
Let me also add ETOPS Hawaii and the Ireland/UK flights also, and then I believe we've covered the places where the WS B736s don't go.

Really? I know they go to Florida sometimes though. WS this year have utterly gutted their YOW sun flying this winter...something you’ll never hear WS ever talk about in their “expansion” announcements...unlike WN who tell it like it is.

I have 1 ride on the 736 YOW-YYZ. I’m also lucky to have 1 ride on the equally rare 318. Got to fly one on with AF CDG-TXL many years ago when they were still pretty new.

I've seen them in DFW and once in IAH.

A cool avgeek Euro trip would be to catch a ride on a SK 736 and self connect to an AF A318 or have a layover in whatever overlapping city. BTW, what would be a city both of them fly their respective small planes to? Asking for a friend...