WestJet
36
Quality Score
Emerging
WestJet
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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WestJet is an iOS app from WestJet in the Travel category, currently rated 2.2★ across 426 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Travel app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$842/mo · 9K ratings · 1.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (112 MB) | +$24K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$22K |
Total estimate
$100K
👥 Estimated audience size
46K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.6K
Daily active
690
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.1
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.25★ across 426 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($842/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (426 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v8.4.1
This update includes bug fixes to make your onboard connection experience smoother.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- WestJet
- Developer
- WestJet
- Bundle ID
- com.westjet.ios.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Flights and vacation packages
- Description
- Find low fare flights with WestJet Canada, save with discount codes and seat sales, discover travel and destination information, and manage upcoming trips.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $307/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/westjet
- linkedin.com/company/westjet
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/westjet · instagram instagram.com/westjet · linkedin linkedin.com/company/westjet · tiktok tiktok.com/@MS4wLjABAAAAe40vZfb-6oN0K… · twitter twitter.com/westjet · youtube youtube.com/westjet
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- westjet.com/en-ca/contact/on-hold-sel…
- About page
- westjet.com/en-ca/rewards/manage/tran…
📈Ratings growth426 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
The WestJet app is your new favourite travel companion!
WestJet launched in 1996 with three aircraft, 250 employees and five destinations, growing over the years to more than 14,000 employees, 200 aircraft, and flying 25 million guests a year to over 100 destinations in 25 countries.
The WestJet app is what you need, when you need it.
Check in on the go. Easily access electronic boarding passes and itineraries. Receive helpful notifications. With the WestJet app, it’s all in the palm of your hand.
Every flight is entertaining.
Streaming in the clouds is a dream.… View full description on the official store →
WestJet launched in 1996 with three aircraft, 250 employees and five destinations, growing over the years to more than 14,000 employees, 200 aircraft, and flying 25 million guests a year to over 100 destinations in 25 countries.
The WestJet app is what you need, when you need it.
Check in on the go. Easily access electronic boarding passes and itineraries. Receive helpful notifications. With the WestJet app, it’s all in the palm of your hand.
Every flight is entertaining.
Streaming in the clouds is a dream.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 112 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v8.4.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR📂 Travel💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.42 → 2.25 (improved 0.83★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.30 → 1.42 (dropped 0.88★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.43 → 2.30 (improved 0.87★)
2024-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.50 → 2.00 (improved 0.50★)
2014-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2014-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for WestJet: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$842/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 100% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 426 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does WestJet make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, WestJet earns approximately $307/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like WestJet?▴
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Who makes WestJet?▴
WestJet is published by WestJet on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is WestJet's BU Score?▴
WestJet has a BU Score of 36/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.