Porter Airlines launches Vancouver-Montreal service

DALLAS — Porter Airlines (PD) has launched its first Western Canada route between Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL).

This new route marks the airline's entry into Western Canada, offering passengers more travel options. The service began with a single daily flight operated by the carrier's state-of-the-art 132-seat Embraer E195-E2 aircraft. The aircraft's two-by-two configuration ensures that there are no middle seats on any PD flight.

Porter passengers enjoy many amenities and services. These include free, high-speed WiFi, premium food selections and complimentary beer and wine by the glass. Additionally, passengers can enjoy priority check-in, extra legroom, premium mixed cocktails and fresh, wholesome meals with all-inclusive PorterReserve fares or à la carte with PorterClassic fares.

Connections, Codeshare Partnership

The new Vancouver-Montreal route offers a variety of connections via YUL to Eastern Canada, including Halifax, Toronto-Pearson and Toronto City. This will complement Porter's daily non-stop service between Toronto-Pearson and Ottawa to Vancouver. In addition, PD's codeshare partnership with Air Transat (TS) provides convenient connections from YUL to various European destinations such as Paris and London.

This feeder network strategy is designed to accelerate the expansion of both airlines in their respective markets: domestic and cross-border for short- and medium-haul PD and international medium- and long-haul TS. TS operates flights to more than 60 international destinations; PD serves more than 30 destinations in North America.

Porter Airlines plans to expand service from Montreal to Edmonton and Calgary later this spring. With the addition of these three new western routes, Porter now operates eight nonstop routes from Montreal.