Porter Axes Another U.S. Route

Several Canadian airlines – including Air Canada, WestJet, and Porter – have already trimmed their transborder schedules.

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A Porter Embraer 195-E2 (Photo: Embraer)
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Key Takeaways:

  • Porter Airlines is suspending its Ottawa-Las Vegas route due to low travel demand between Canada and the U.S.
  • This follows the airline's earlier cancellation of its San Diego route.
  • Porter will continue to offer Las Vegas flights from Toronto.
  • The airline is adding new routes to various destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.
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Canadian airline Porter plans to suspend another route to the U.S. as travel demand between the two countries lags. Several airlines – including Air Canada, WestJet, and Porter – have already trimmed their transborder schedules.

In November, Porter began non-stop flights between Ottawa and Las Vegas. These flights operated four times per week, and were previously scheduled to end this month, resuming in October.

According to Cirium Diio schedule data, this route will no longer restart in the fall, and has been completely wiped from the airline’s schedule.

Porter will now serve Las Vegas solely from Toronto.

In May, the carrier also confirmed that it would end flights to San Diego, a route that began in December.

Porter Airlines’ Embraer 195-E2 (Photo: Embraer)

“We are in the process of finalizing our winter schedule and it’s possible the route may not return. LAS is still available as a connection in Toronto. We hope we are able to bring the route back at a later date,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

Instead, Porter opted to add several routes overflying the U.S. this week. Starting this fall, the carrier will fly to Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Nassau in the Bahamas; Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands; and Liberia, Costa Rica.

Ryan Ewing

Ryan founded AirlineGeeks.com in February 2013 and has spent more than a decade covering the airline business. His work has been featured by CNN, WJLA, CNET, and Business Insider. His aviation experience spans airport operations, Part 135 regulatory compliance, and airline crew workforce planning, along with time behind the yoke of a Cessna 172 and interviews with airline executives. Ryan now serves as Group President of Firecrown Media’s Aviation Group. He holds a B.S. in Air Transportation Management and an MBA from Arizona State University and teaches Airline Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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