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About Porter Airlines
Porter Airlines is a regional Canadian airline based in Toronto, Canada and operates scheduled flights between Toronto and Canada and United States. The regional airline flies to many destinations including Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Stephenville, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor, North Bay, Boston, Burlington, Charleston, Chicago, Melbourne, Newark, Pittsburgh, Washington and others. It has a codeshare agreement with South African Airways and Qatar Airways.
This airline has revolutionized short-haul flying with a warm and effortless approach to hospitality, restoring glamour and refinement to air travel.
Flights and packages are available to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, Halifax, St. John’s, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay, Windsor, New York (Newark), Chicago (Midway), Boston, Washington (Dulles), Pittsburgh and with seasonal flights to Mt. Tremblant, Que., Myrtle Beach, S.C., Burlington, Vt., and Orlando-Melbourne.
Porter Airlines Baggage Allowances
Carry-on Baggage
Carry-on baggage allowances vary according to the ticket fare purchased.
Basic fare passengers are only permitted to bring one personal item, and any other items would be classed as checked baggage. The personal item should have a maximum size of 43cm x 16cm x 33cm (17 in x 6 in x 13 in) and maximum weight allowance of 9kg (20 lb) per bag. Examples of the personal item include a handbag/purse, briefcase, laptop computer, camera bag, or small garment bag.
Standard, flexible and freedom fare passengers are permitted to bring one personal item, alongside what is classed by the airline as a 'standard article'. The 'standard article' should have a maximum size of 40cm x 23c, x 55cm (16 n x 9 in x 22 in) and a maximum weight of 9kg (20 lb) per bag. Examples of the standard article include a backpack, duffel bag, pet carrier, or cabin suitcase.
Checked Baggage
Fees for booking additional checked baggage are dependant on the fare the passenger has purchased, alongside whether the passenger chooses to book their baggage online or at the airport. It is recommended that checked luggage is ordered online, as fees are cheaper.
Freedom fares include two free checked bags, with the third and additional bags available to carry at a chargeable rate.
The maximum size allowance is 158cm (62 in) total length per bag, and maximum weight allowance of 23kg (50 lb) per bag. No single item can weigh more than 32kg (70 lb).
Porter Airlines Destinations
Fredericton International Airport, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Halifax, NS, Canada
Greater Moncton International Airport, Moncton, NB, Canada
Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Montreal, QC, Canada
Rivière Rouge – Mont Tremblant International Airport, Mont Tremblant, QC, Canada
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Stephenville International Airport, Stephenville, NL, Canada
Saint John Airport, Saint John, NB, Canada
St. John's International Airport, St. John's, NL, Canada
Sault Ste. Marie Airport, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada
Greater Sudbury Airport, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Timmins Victor M. Power Airport, Timmins, ON, Canada
Thunder Bay International Airport, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Toronto, ON, Canada
Windsor International Airport, Windsor, ON, Canada
Logan International Airport, Boston, MA, USA
Burlington International Airport, Burlington, VT, USA
Midway International Airport, Chicago, IL, USA
Orlando Melbourne International Airport, Melbourne, FL, USA
Myrtle Beach International Airport, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ, USA
Washington Dulles International Airport, Washington, DC, USA
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Porter Airlines News
9th May 2018
Travellers Can Access TSA Pre-Check on Porter Airlines
Porter Airlines has joined the TSA Pre-Check program, enabling its passengers to use expedited airport security screening at designated checkpoints when travelling from the U.S.
All members of Global Entry or the TSA Pre-Check Program are eligible for expedited screening that may allow passengers to keep on shoes, belts, and light outerwear, as well as leave laptops and compliant liquids in carry-on baggage.
Canadian citizens enrolled in NEXUS are also eligible, as are U.S. citizens or U.S. lawful permanent residents who are members of NEXUS or SENTRI. Complete enrollment and eligibility requirements for trusted traveler programs are available from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
When making a reservation, passengers should provide their trusted traveler membership number or PASS ID, also referred to as a Known Traveler Number (KTN). The KTN may also be entered in a VIPorter frequent flyer profile, where it will be stored for future reservations made directly from individual profiles.
Passengers will know they can use TSA Pre-Check when the symbol is displayed on a boarding pass. In March 2018, 93 percent of TSA Pre-Check passengers waited less than five minutes to clear security.
Porter offers flights to 15 Canadian cities, including Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Fredericton, Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor, New York (Newark), Chicago (Midway), Boston and Washington (Dulles), and has seasonal flights to various other Canadian and U.S. cities.
8th March 2018
Why is Porter Airlines setting up a base in Thunder Bay?
The Toronto-based airline’s new operations in the north suggest it may have larger plans in mind for the region
A Toronto airline’s ceaseless drive to add new destinations could be the best thing to happen for northwestern Ontario travellers in years.
The airline's destinations list is always changing — new flights and destinations are regularly added and tested. As it owns just 29 planes, Porter has to make tough choices about how to profitably deploy the fleet. When routes underperform, they get dropped. For example, Pittsburgh and North Bay vanished from the route map last September, replaced by Fredericton and Saint John.
One route that has soared from Day One is Porter’s Toronto-to-Thunder Bay service. The airline announced it in March 2009 as a summer-only option. But demand was so high that Toronto-Thunder Bay was made a year-round flight three months later, just as the planes were actually taking off. Last year, the airline announced that Thunder Bay International Airport would be the site of a new crew base employing 40 pilots and air crew. The base’s official opening, on February 1, coincided with the news that Porter will be adding a seventh daily flight from Thunder Bay to Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport.
“For up to 40 good-paying aviation jobs … to land into Thunder Bay is a big deal for a town our size,” says Ed Schmidtke, president and CEO of the Thunder Bay International Airports Authority (airport code: YQT). He also noted that the new Porter hires might help Thunder Bay draw and retain a young workforce — something that’s a challenge for many mid-sized cities. “I was struck at the press conference that Porter held here … that these employees look to me, anyway, to be in their mid- to late-30s.”
Having more aircraft come through YQT will also mean more revenue for the airport (which is already doing well, financially speaking).
And Porter may have bigger ambitions. Many industry observers question whether 40 people are donning the snazzy blue Porter uniform in Thunder Bay just to facilitate one extra daily flight to Toronto and back. Watch for new nodes to branch off from Thunder Bay on the route map before long — perhaps Prairie cities, perhaps U.S. cities, perhaps a mixture of the two.
“Historically, when you move to doing a crew base, there’s an expectation that you’re going to build a bit of a hub around that base,” says Chris Murray, a managing director in equity research at AltaCorp Capital and a veteran analyst of the airline industry. He notes that using a Thunder Bay crew base as a launch point for other locations would be in line with Porter’s established growth strategy. “Keep in mind, they started flying to places in the Maritimes by using Ottawa as a hub.”
Porter’s drive to expand, analysts believe, springs from its need to demonstrate growth in order to eventually undertake an IPO and become a publicly traded company. For years, Porter’s Plan A for expansion involved getting approval for Billy Bishop Airport to extend its runway, which would allow jets to take off safely. It could then have purchased jet planes — it had Bombardier’s new CSeries models in mind — and added routes from downtown Toronto to destinations its turboprops can’t reach. President and CEO Robert Deluce offered Las Vegas, Calgary, and Miami as examples. But the federal government had to approve the runway plan first, and when the Trudeau Liberals took power in fall 2015, transportation minister Marc Garneau promptly nixed it.
The Thunder Bay crew base looks like an early move in a yet-to-be unveiled Plan B. In order to demonstrate the expansion that investors want to see, it could continue — as it has done since its founding in 2006 — to gradually add routes in an iterative fashion, seeing what works, and what doesn’t.
As Porter remains a privately owned company, it has some ability to keep its secrets until they’re ready to spill. But we do know it’s looking west: when he spoke with Northern Ontario Business last year, Deluce speculated about moving beyond Porter’s traditional territory along the eastern flank of North America.
Brad Cicero, the airlines' director of communications and public affairs, wrote in an email to TVO: “We have previously indicated a longer-term desire to serve points west of Thunder Bay in North America. The new crew base is meant to provide resources for operating flights within our existing network. We don’t have a timeline for adding other routes, or where they may be operated from.” And for the record, Schmidtke says if Porter is planning new routes out of YQT, the airline hasn’t told the airport yet.
Yet airline industry consultant Robert Kokonis says a crew base in Thunder Bay could help Porter extend its network to points westward. “There’s a lot of folks I bump into in Western Canada that say, ‘I’ve been down to Central Canada on business, and I had a chance to take the airline out of Toronto Billy Bishop. I like the cachet of the brand. I kind of wish they were in Western Canada,’” says Kokonis, president and managing director of AirTrav.
For Porter, the relatively short range of the Q400 aircraft is a challenge: it wasn’t built for the distances involved in direct flights from Toronto (the airline’s central hub) to the cities of Western Canada. Porter test-marketed Toronto-Winnipeg direct flights in 2016. The route was demonstrated to be technically possible for a Q400, but Kokonis says it’s probably too long to be cost-efficient, given all the fuel the small plane would use en route. “In theory, Thunder Bay could help that,” he says. “I could see flights out of Winnipeg through Thunder Bay into Toronto.” (And vice versa, naturally.)
Analysts also mention Saskatoon, Regina, Minneapolis, or Duluth, Minnesota, as potential destinations from Thunder Bay. The holy grail for northwestern Ontario residents, however, would be a flight from YQT to Chicago. You can fly pretty much anywhere in the world from Chicago, and northwestern Ontarians would pay less if they had access to a connection option other than Toronto for flights to Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and other relatively distant destinations. In other words, a few key air connections could make northwestern Ontario far better connected to the rest of the planet.
September 2017
Porter Airlines adds Fredericton
Porter Airlines has now added Fredericton(YFC) in New Brunswick to its network, starting a daily Q400-operated service from Toronto City(YTZ) via Ottawa (YOW) on 12 September. “The enthusiastic welcome for our inaugural flight is something that we want to build on to ensure the airline has a long, successful presence in Fredericton,” said Robert Deluce, President and CEO of the airline at the launch. “We’re thrilled to come together with our entire community in welcoming the airline to Fredericton,” said Johanne Gallant, President and CEO of Fredericton Airport. “Our businesses and residents are excited to have this new option for accessing key markets and leisure travel. The arrival is great news for New Brunswick’s Capital Region,” Gallant added. While no other carrier offers direct flights on the 1,044-kilometre link between Toronto City Airport and Fredericton, it should be noted that Air Canada and WestJet both already provide a three times daily service on the city pair, with both serving Fredericton non-stop from Toronto Pearson. In relation to the Ottawa sector of Porter’s new service, Air Canada already offers five weekly flights on the 713-kilometre airport pair with Fredericton. Porter’s expansion in New Brunswick does not stop with Fredericton. The carrier on 21 September will start a daily connection between Toronto City and Saint John, a link it will also offer via Ottawa.
May 2017
Porter Airlines announces commitment to sustainable development
Porter Airlines announced its commitment to sustainable development by signing a partnership with OpenAirlines to use its innovative fuel efficiency platform SkyBreathe. By this agreement, SkyBreathe will analyze billions of data on aircraft usage that cover a host of elements including weather conditions, payload, flight path, ATC constraints and progress monitoring. Based on the collected data, the software computes hundreds of fuel-focused parameters and provides easy-to-understand KPIs (key performance indicators) at the company level or down to each and every flight. Thanks to these reports, The airline will be able to monitor the performance of its fuel saving plan, comparing actual savings against set targets and to implement the most appropriate best practices to reduce fuel burn and save money.
April 2017
Summer Mont Tremblant flights to return for summer
Porter Airlines announced flights to Mont Tremblant were returning for the summer period. Service begins June 23, and runs until September 24, 2017. Flights will operate up to four times weekly until Sept. 4, and two times weekly for the remainder of the season. Passengers can fly non-stop from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to Mont Tremblant International Airport in just 70 minutes. The picturesque Mont Tremblant village is known for its ski hills, but it is more than just a snow destination. It has something to experience during all four seasons.
November 2016
Porter Airlines kicks off ski season with Toronto-Mont Tremblant flights
The airline announced it was to kick off the ski season with winter service between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and Mont Tremblant on December 9, 2016.
Flights are available until April 3, 2017, with service up to 6 x weekly during the peak schedule.
October 2016
Porter Airlines celebrates a decade of operation
The airline has just celebrated 10 years of service. The airline’s first flights took place on October 23, 2006, connecting these two cities. Porter has since grown to serve 23 destinations in Canada and the U.S. from a home base at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. It continues to receive international acclaim for its refined approach to service, including complimentary wine and beer on flights, and access to airport lounges for all passengers in select locations.
Nearly 18 million passengers have flown with Porter over the last 10 years, while the airline travelled more than 240 million kilometers. In 2016, The airline was selected as a top 10 international airline by both Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler magazines. It was also chosen as Best Regional Airline in North America by Skytrax.
