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WestJet welcomes Mesa, Arizona, to its growing network

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CALGARY, Nov. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – WestJet announced today it will begin serving Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport from Calgary and Edmonton starting January 19, 2017. Seats will be available for purchase by calling WestJet at 1-888-937-8538 (1-888-WESTJET) and through travel agencies as of 12 p.m. MST on Monday, November 21, and on westjet.com as of 12 p.m. MST on Tuesday, November 22.

“We are proud of our expanding network of more than 100 cities in over 20 countries, and our reputation as an established, trusted brand with more than two decades of service to Canadians,” said Bob Cummings, WestJet Executive Vice-President, Commercial. “We have provided hundreds of thousands of our guests with non-stop service between Canada and Phoenix since 2004, and now look forward to bringing low fares and our signature brand of caring, friendly service to our second destination in Arizona.”
Details of WestJet’s new non-stop service to Mesa, Arizona:

WestJet is also offering deals on destinations across Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe as part of a system-wide Black Friday sale until November 25, 2016. For more information, please visit westjet.com.
WestJet Vacations provides guests with affordable, reliable and easy-to-book travel experiences to 65 destinations in 21 countries, including the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Mexico and United States. Leveraging WestJet’s extensive network and remarkable guest experience, WestJet Vacations offers guests a great flight schedule and a wide variety of hotel and resort options to create fun and affordable vacation experiences in Arizona and across the WestJet network. 
About WestJetWe are proud to be Canada’s most trusted airline, powered by an award-winning culture of care and recognized as one of the country’s top employers. WestJet, and our regional airline, WestJet Encore, offer scheduled service to more than 100 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe. Through our partnerships with airlines representing every major region of the world, we offer our guests more than 150 destinations in more than 20 countries. Leveraging WestJet’s extensive network, flight schedule and remarkable guest experience, WestJet Vacations delivers affordable, flexible travel experiences with a variety of accommodation options for every guest. Members of our WestJet Rewards program earn WestJet dollars on flights, vacation packages and more. Our members use WestJet dollars towards the purchase of WestJet flights and vacations packages on any day, at any time, to any WestJet destination with no blackout periods  ̶  even on seat sales. For more information about everything WestJet, please visit westjet.com.  
Connect with WestJet on Facebook at facebook.com/westjet
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According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestJet,
WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline that began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines.^[5] WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1996, it is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada,^[6] operating an average of 425 flights and carrying over 45,000 passengers^[7] per day. In 2013, WestJet carried 18.5 million passengers,^[8] making it the ninth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried. WestJet is a public company with more than 10,000 employees,^[8] is non-unionized and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, as well as Boeing 767 aircraft, on select long-haul routes.^[9] Its subsidiary WestJet Encore also operates the Bombardier Q400. The airline's headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport.^[10]
In 2015, WestJet had passenger revenues of $4.029 billion (CAD) and its earnings per share increased 19% to C$2.92.^[11] In 2015, WestJet was rated as the 8th best low-cost carrier in the world and the second best in North America by Skytrax.^[12Founded by Clive Beddoe, David Neeleman, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan and Donald Bell, WestJet was based on the low-cost carrier business model pioneered by Southwest Airlines and Morris Air in the United States. Its original routes were all located in Western Canada, which gave the airline its name.
In 2004, rival airline Air Canada accused WestJet of industrial espionage and filed a civil suit against WestJet in Ontario Superior Court. Air Canada accused WestJet of accessing Air Canada confidential information via a private website in order to gain a business advantage.^[18] On May 29, 2006 WestJet admitted to the charges leveled by Air Canada and agreed to pay C$5.5 million in legal and investigation fees to Air Canada and donate C$10 million to various children's charities in the names of Air Canada and WestJet.^[19]
From 2012 to 2014, WestJet further expanded into the United States by adding Chicago via O'Hare International Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Myrtle Beach International Airport, and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
On November 15, 2013, WestJet announced their first destination in Europe. Seasonal service from St. John's, Newfoundland to Dublin, Ireland, will operate from June to October 2014.^[41]
The mainline fleet currently consists exclusively of Boeing aircraft, while wholly owned subsidiary Encore flies Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s. 20 examples were originally ordered with options for up to 25 more.

Need A Cosmic Perspective >> Red Vs. Blue - Clusters in Stars + Politics

Published on Nov 18, 2016
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This started off as a video about Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Red Vs. Blue Stars and became something else. Why is mankind at war with itself? God Bless everyone,
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The Colors of Stars: Red vs. Blue
By Phil Plait
Open clusters—sometimes still called galactic clusters, though that’s an old-fashioned term—are beautiful. They’re clumps of stars ranging from dozens to thousands of members, all occupying a relatively small volume of space. Usually they’re bound together by their own gravity, but over tens or hundreds of millions of years (sometimes even more) interactions between the stars in the cluster fling members away.
Many of the stars have life spans much shorter than this. The most massive ones fuse hydrogen in their cores much faster, making them brighter, hotter, and bluer. So why, in the Hubble image of the open cluster NGC 299 shown above, are some of the brightest stars red?
It’s because those are massive stars that have stopped fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. The inert helium has built up in their centers, getting tremendously hot. This extra energy gets dumped into the stars’ outer layers … and when you heat a gas, it expands. So too these stars have swollen up, growing huge. That means their surface area has expanded, and the amount of energy they radiate per square centimeter drops. They cool, and turn red. Astronomers, clever folks that they are, named these kinds of stars red supergiants. Although cooler than their blue brethren, they are so big that their increased areas more than compensate for the lower temperatures, and they shine tremendously brightly.
So even though the blue stars in the cluster are brilliant, the red ones can be just as luminous.
It’s also possible these supergiant stars have evolved even further, piling up enough helium in their cores to begin fusing that into carbon. Those can have inert but incredibly hot carbon cores, with thin shells of helium and hydrogen fusing outside of it. The details can be complex, but in the end it all points the same way: The stars are in their end stages, and will soon explode as supernovae.
So look again at that photo.

The three bright red stars are probably the most massive stars in the cluster, and were once blue. This is more than just an interesting piece of scientificness.
It’s also a powerful tool: Using sophisticated models based on decades of knowledge learned about stars, we can calculate how old a star will be when it changes from a blue “normal” star to a red giant. This happens to more massive stars first, so by measuring the most massive star that hasn’t yet become a red supergiant, the age of the cluster can be found (assuming all the stars formed at the same time, a reasonable assumption). And indeed, NGC 299 is young, about 15 million to 20 million years old. How cool (or hot) is that? Although there are lots of details to consider, just by glancing at this image, I can tell you quite a bit about what you’re seeing. Now consider this: NGC 299 is 200,000 light-years away! It’s not even in our own galaxy, but instead in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own. Lots of much closer clusters look like this through my own telescope, but thanks to the power of Hubble NGC 299 lets slip its secrets to us.
I talk about how stars evolve over their lifetimes in Crash Course Astronomy: Stars, and go over clusters in another episode. Here’s the cluster one for your edification.
And as a final note: These supergiants, in death, seed the galaxy with heavy elements necessary for the creation of more stars, planets, and the basic ingredients for life.
In death there is life, which is true on the scale of microbes and humans and the stars themselves.

Now Visible: Large Object on Secchi A Satellite/Update

Jupiter/67moons
Published on Nov 19, 2016
Views: 54,834
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It's Dickensian, Tim >> O Do Say More! Here Is The Honorable Mr. Jonathan Pie

Giving' it a good go!
Published on Nov 20, 2016
Views: 20,391
Jonathan Pie is back on message. This week he lays into Theresa May's policies. And her hair and sleeping arrangements.

A Verifiable Barrage of News Re/Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport

Let's start with that good old standby for opening a story: Once upon a time . . .
Two guys, one whose moniker became "Quick Jab Bill" and another named Brian, happened to work together in Manchester, New Hampshire. To make a long story short they both landed here in Mesa inside City Hall. One stayed inside city hall and another got to go to an airport, one of two here in our sprawling metropolis Mesa, City Endless.

J. Brian O'Neill

Yes, it all started quite some time before this story - Err!  this news story - was written on July 8, 2016 by AZ Republic reporter Maria Polenta:Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport 'aggressively pursuing' new airlines, industrial park
"One month into his tenure, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport's new leader is pushing ahead with his predecessor's efforts to recruit new airlines, develop vacant land and fend off residential encroachment."
Blogger's Note: The first push is proving to be a great success based on a barrage of news stories in the last few days [see related content farther into this post]
In addition there are numerous posts on this blogsite about both Gateway Airport and Falcon Field that readers might find of interest, including a $9.6 Million dollar grant from FAA for the third runway improvements to support civilian, military, and pilot training. 
Other posts on the blogsite feature some not so successful efforts to fend off residential development.

El Chacal de La Trompeta - Mucho Gusto 2016

Your MesaZona has been looking for this clip for a long time -- give Trump THE GONG SHOW treatment!

Shifting An Entire Continent! >> Pacific Plate Suddenly Rises 6 Feet in Seconds!

Makes U wonder
Published on Nov 18, 2016
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