Porter Airlines to fly out of Pearson to Vancouver, plus Ottawa and Montreal | 24CA News
Porter Airlines has introduced an aggressive enlargement plan, one that may see the Toronto-based regional airline begin flying new routes out of Canada’s largest airport, to locations farther away than the airline has ever flown earlier than.
The airline, whose base of operations is at Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island, has introduced new routes flying out of town’s Pearson airport.
For the primary time ever, Porter will provide flights from Toronto to Vancouver — the longest route the airline has supplied in its 16-year historical past. The route has been made doable due to the airline’s latest acquisition of fifty Embraer E195-E2 jets.
Flights are slated to start in February and round-trip fares will begin at $248, the airline stated in a press release.
In addition to Vancouver, Porter can also be including two new routes out of Pearson to Ottawa and Montreal, additionally on the Embraer jets. While Porter’s conventional fleet of turboprops have a complimentary snack service, the brand new jets and routes will include acquainted air-travel perks, like Wi-FI and a meal service.
The flights out of Pearson to Ottawa and Montreal will begin at $225, with all charges and taxes included, the airline stated.
“Porter’s introduction of the E195-E2 provides the ability to operate throughout North America, including the West Coast, better positioning us to serve the needs of many more business and leisure passengers,” Porter CEO Michael Deluce stated in a press release.
Previous enlargement plans
Porter had beforehand tried to scale up from a small regional airline by ordering a number of dozen CSeries jets from Bombardier, which might have allowed it to supply long-range flights to locations as distant as western Europe and the Caribbean.
But these plans had been scuppered when numerous ranges of presidency refused to permit the runway on the downtown Toronto Island airport to be expanded to deal with the bigger jets.
