The airline Westjet has long wanted to use four Boeing 737-800s that have been converted into freighters for commercial use. However, the project fails due to the proverbial "official mold" because the Canadian Civil Aviation Authority has not yet given the go-ahead.

The four affected aircraft are currently at Calgary Airport awaiting official certification. Without these, the current full freighters may not be used. This state of affairs could also last longer, because the Canadian government assumes that the process will take another nine months.

This is massively annoying for Westjet, because they had four passenger planes converted into cargo planes, but they are simply not allowed to use them due to the lack of certification. The carrier currently has no other option but to wait until the civil aviation authority has given the expected green light.

But the lousy one has a certain history, because actually at least two of the Boeing 737-800P2F should have been in the air since July 2021. The date was then postponed to March 26, 2023 and even this is acutely on the brink because the official "go" has still not been granted.

Westjet admitted in a statement that the certification did not go as expected. The duration of the procedure was massively underestimated and it was not expected that the process would be extremely lengthy. A fixed date for the first cargo flight cannot be given.