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WestJet continues to record a solid financial performance, but faces pockets of capacity pressure

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Canada's WestJet Airlines delivered strong financial results for 4Q2014 and CY2014 driven by healthy revenue growth, and some benefit from falling fuel costs. Although the weaker CAD against the USD diminishes some of the benefit for Canadian airlines of lower fuel expense.

As it moves fully into 2015 WestJet admits to seeing some pressure in its southern markets, particularly the Caribbean and Mexico, from capacity increases that are outstripping what it characterises at still healthy demand in those regions.

Similar to some of its US peers, WestJet is projecting 1Q2015 unit revenue growth of flat to slightly negative, likely driven in part by some pricing pressure created from the capacity expansion in some winter destination markets. The airline is not offering guidance as to when unit revenues may start an upswing, but feels reasonably confident about overall demand, and has no plans to change its growth targets.

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