Review of WestJet flight from Calgary to Toronto in Economy

introduction

After 6 days in Alberta, I flew back to Toronto.
I saw beautiful places and also found some time for plane spotting :)

Finally I took a photo of DC10! What a rare aircraft!

Since my flight was a morning flight, I woke up early,
I also returned my rental car, so I scheduled extra time.

I started my day in the rental car parking in Calgary airport:

I returned the car without any issue and made my way to the terminal.

YYC AIRPORT - TERMINAL 1

I went to the check in area and found those self check in kiosks:

This process was pretty annoying, since I also needed to balance our (mine and my fiancee) suitcases.
In Israel and on some occasions in Europe, I could check in 2 suitcases that sums up to 23kg x2, meaning if I flew without someone, and my suitcase weights 25kg and the other one weights 21kg, there's no problem.

We went through the security check, and started to made our way to the gate area:

I wonder who can eat Burger king in 6 am… Definitely not me.
I bought coffee and cookie in Starbucks, the price were pretty reasonable for airport, 8$ (CAD).

I went to the toilets:

As you can see, the toilets were clean and in very good condition.

The terminal was pretty empty on this time:

The sorting on this screen was very strange. Usually they order it by take off or boarding time.

More photo of the empty terminal:

Our gate area:

The boarding started on time.
I made my way on the jet bridge:

Aircraft information:
Boeing 787-9
C-GYRS
In service since March 2020
Currently 3 years old, was 2.5 years old (approximately) on my flight

FLIGHT EXPERIENCE - YYC TO YYZ

We entered the aircraft from door 2L, meaning I could see the premium economy cabin, which looks pretty nice in my opinion:

Economy class:

As you can see, each seat equipped with personal IFE, USB sockets, foldable table, as well as power outlet.

Wing view during sunrise:

Legroom:

The legroom was pretty good on this aircraft, even on a standard economy seat, the headrest was adjustable and the seat itself was comfy.
I could definitely fly on this aircraft on much longer flight without any issue.

IFE:

This was a modern PSU, but thing 787 doesn't equipped with air vent for each passenger.

We started the push back with a small delay.

Plane spotting during taxi:

Take off video:

Shortly after take off IFE view:

The tray table was nice, clean and steady:

40-45 minutes into the flight, the crew served drinks and small snack.
I chose coffee and pretzels.

This was a nice gesture, but for 4 hours flight, I would expect to get sandwich or small meal.
Another IFE view:

Cabin view during cruise:

2 hours into the flight, I went to the toilets:

As you can see, the toilets were clean.

We started our descent 20-30 minutes before the landing:

Although we had a delay in the take off time, the pilots managed somehow to land on time.

Landing video:

Plane spotting on YYZ, during taxi to terminal 3:

Cabin view during deboarding:

Bye bye C-GYRS!

YYZ AIRPORT - TERMINAL 3 (AND A BIT FROM TERMINAL 1…)

On the way to the baggage claim area:

I measured 7 minutes of walking from the gate to the baggage claim area. Not bad.

After I found my suitcase, I headed to the train to terminal 1.
Since there were no rental car companies that worked in terminal 3, I had to take this train to terminal 1,
which was inconvenient with a big bag and suitcase.

The ride on the train was very short and I made my way to the rental cars area:

Finally I got to the rental cars company counter!

And shortly after, I received my rental car:

The service in National and Alamo was very good and they workers were friendly!