{"id":549,"date":"2009-12-02T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=549"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:31:38","slug":"west-jet-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"West Jet &#8211; Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/span><\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>West Jet <\/strong>&#8211; Canada<br \/>\n<strong>Project type : <\/strong>New passenger Reservations System<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Jan 2007<strong> Cost :<\/strong> $34M USD<br \/>\nUpdated: 2 Dec 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nEfforts to implement a new customized reservations system cancelled amid delays and quality concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Update 2 Dec 2009 &#8211; Following the cancellation of the original project in 2007, Westjet moved their reservations systems to the well established SABRE airline platform in the fall of 2009. Unfortunately the switch is reported to have caused on going problems for customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong><br \/>\nChanging requirements and schedule delays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wingsmagazine.com\/westjet-announces-suspension-of-aires-implementation-253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">WestJet Announces Suspension of aiRES Implementation <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. West Jet &#8211; Canada Project type : New passenger Reservations System Date : Jan 2007 Cost : $34M USD Updated: 2 Dec 2009 Synopsis : Efforts to implement a new customized reservations system cancelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,77],"tags":[132,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-sector","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-private-sector","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}