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Latest archived mark · 2018

WestJet

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Air Canada

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What we compare	WestJet	Air Canada
Country in archive	Canada	Canada
Founded	June 27, 1994	April 11, 1937
Founder	Clive Beddoe, David Neeleman, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan, Donald Bell	Government of Canada
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Name origin	The name refers to the airline's original routes, which were all in Western Canada. Wikipedia states that this is what gave the airline its name, combined with the word jet for its aircraft.	Air Canada was the long-used French-language name of Trans-Canada Air Lines. After a private member's bill by Jean Chrétien passed, the airline officially took the name on 1 January 1965.
Highlights	Calgary International Airport hub, WestJet Encore, WestJet Cargo	Domestic and international passenger service, Air Canada Cargo, Air Canada Express, Air Canada Rouge
Earliest archived brand logo	1996	1937
Latest archived logo	2018	2017
Archived logo assets	3	7

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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