WestJet Group is buying Toronto-based Sunwing Airlines and Sunwing Vacations. The companies said the takeover could be finalized in late 2022.

Travel agents are being flooded with requests from Canadians eager to book vacations now that the federal government has downgraded pre-arrival PCR tests to the cheaper and faster authorized rapid antigen test for fully vaccinated travellers as of Feb. 28

The government is advising Canadians to avoid non-essential travel outside the country, insisting that this is not the time for travel due to rising cases and the contagious nature of the Omicron variant....