Porter Airlines

[Bytepusher]

Originally Posted by laidback71

"The maiden voyage of a new $5-million ferry... went awry Wednesday, when the vessel slammed into the north side of the narrow channel and what was supposed to be a one-minute journey took nearly half an hour."

It's not like this never happened with the old ferry, I've twice been on the old ferry when they missed the slip and had to back up and try again (and again and again), once because of poor visibility (fog) and once because of high winds. If memory serves in both cases GX wound up busing us out to YYZ but we had to actually show up at YTZ and cross on the ferry to get the bus.

[back seat]

I worked at the Toronto Island airport for 2 years - in the Winter the ferry boat ride was always interesting - especially in high winds.

Many times the ferry boat count not get into the slip and had to dock on the sea wall on the east end of the island.

Kinda miss those days.

[Bytepusher]

Porter has sent an e-mail today offering discounts for flights booked before Nov 15th with travel before Dec 15th.

25/50/100 bucks off Firm/Flex/Freedom fares.

Let the games begin!

[ohcanada]

Originally Posted by Bytepusher

Porter has sent an e-mail today offering discounts for flights booked before Nov 15th with travel before Dec 15th.

25/50/100 bucks off Firm/Flex/Freedom fares.

Let the games begin!

Obviously early sales have not been that strong. Maybe people are worried about the ferry sinking.

[YYCOllie]

I thought the Aeroplan changes was a Porter marketing tool

[evdog19]

Originally Posted by Bytepusher

Porter has sent an e-mail today offering discounts for flights booked before Nov 15th with travel before Dec 15th.

25/50/100 bucks off Firm/Flex/Freedom fares.

Let the games begin!

Here are the codes...

Save $25 one-way on FIRM "25DFIRMP"
Save $50 one-way on FLEX "50DFLEXP"
Save $100 one-way on FREEDOM "100DFREP"

[ChrisA330]

Wasn't AC's Latitude Plus originally named Freedom, but they had to pull it because of Trademark issues with Southwest?

[YYCOllie]

Originally Posted by ChrisA330

Wasn't AC's Latitude Plus originally named Freedom, but they had to pull it because of Trademark issues with Southwest?

You are correct - who knows what will come of it!

[marbuck]

I called Porter Airlines when receiving this 25 50 100 discount offer and forced the issue: Are there better discounts out there?

The service rep hemmed and hawed, then asked for guidance, and said there were. Rightfully he didn't tell me what they are. My reaction: Head over to FT to see if someone else has already found the 'something better'. Guess not. Anyways the fare with discount as presently offered is reasonable, but I think it may go lower.

[Bytepusher]

Originally Posted by marbuck

The service rep hemmed and hawed, then asked for guidance, and said there were. Rightfully he didn't tell me what they are.

Pure speculation but I assume that these would be discounts that are being offered only to "corporate accounts".

[ohcanada]

Porter staff were standing on Bay Street this morning giving out little kits that include a balsa wood airplane (have not tried to fly it yet, so do not know if YTZ runway is long enough ) and a note advertising the 25/50/100 discounts. Uniforms are nice, but I can't see that as a reason to fly with them.

[dbyyz]

Originally Posted by YYCOllie

I thought the Aeroplan changes was a Porter marketing tool

But still no proter frequent flyer plan. These guys must be as stupid as the people running Aeroplan.

[tcook052]

http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAn...77880-sun.html

Porter Airlines passengers will be met with protests first thing Monday morning when the new carrier takes off.

Community Air -- the group that battled to stop the bridge to the Island airport, won the fight and still didn't stop Porter -- is launching a "Boycott the Island airport" campaign.

[GregWTravels]

Originally Posted by ohcanada

Porter staff were standing on Bay Street this morning giving out little kits that include a balsa wood airplane

I saw a bunch of them this morning walking through the BCE place in downtown Toronto. Wonder if they were sticking inside because of the rain.

I agree, sharp looking uniforms.

[ohcanada]

I can report that the Porter balsa wood planes are easy to assemble and fly reasonably well. They do have a tendency to veer into walls, however, which may make them more accurate models than Porter may wish.