Porter Airlines
Dec 15, 22, 3:34 pm
#1696
Join Date: May 2003
Programs: UA Silver
Posts: 1,926
Dec 16, 22, 8:57 am
#1697
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YOW/HBA
Programs: Qantas Silver, MileagePlus Silver
Posts: 418
I'm also disappointed with the YOW>BOS timing because it doesn't align if you wanted to connect onwards to the West Coast USA with JetBlue.
Dec 17, 22, 2:23 am
#1698
Join Date: Oct 2022
Programs: Aeroplan SE; Marriott Bonvoy Ambassador
Posts: 1,364
Jan 12, 23, 2:48 pm
#1702
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YOW/HBA
Programs: Qantas Silver, MileagePlus Silver
Posts: 418
Porter Airlines unveils premium onboard catering and entertainment partners
https://www.newswire.ca/news-release...824816391.html
Jan 19, 23, 3:09 pm
#1703
Join Date: Nov 2022
Posts: 53
Does anyone know if it’s possible to book standard fare using other booking engine? Or book with other engine then upgrade to standard fare? I’ve found tickets on gotogate that are much cheaper than porters official website, but it seems like I can only book the basic class with doesn’t have any carry on allowance
Feb 5, 23, 7:58 am
#1705
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 567
The way I see it, there's 4 possibilities of what happened here. In no particular order.
1. An actual emergency requiring slide deployment. I find this unlikely here. I can't come up with a situation in my head where you'd use only 1 slide when in the proximity of a bridge. I could see situations where you could use 3 slides plus bridge, or if there was a fire on the bridge, 3 slides. But not bridge and 1 slide.
2. Training event. All new FAs or FAs being type trained on their first aircraft type with slides (last part relevant for Porter, Q400s don't have slides) must complete a slide jump. To the best of my knowledge, there are only 2 training slides in the YYZ area one at Air Canada and one at Jazz. I know there are airlines (Sunwing in the past for example) who would use one of their actual planes for this, with a slide dedicated to the task (maintaince would swap out an actual slide with a training slide, FAs would do their jump, maintaince then removes slide and re attaches the regular one). You'd normally not do this at a gate, you'd do it in your maintaince area. Throwing it here as information, and another outside possibly.
3. Malfunction in the door, if the girt bar didn't disengage when disarmed, it's possible, but the girt bar indicator would still indicate armed.
4. A mistake by cabin crew. I rate this as the most likely. In Porter's case, you're introducing a new type of aircraft with slides to a group of flight attendants whom have spent their entire career thus far not having to worry about/deal with slides. Mistakes happen. I'm not personally trained on 195-E2 doors, but I am trained on 175-E1 doors, they're *likely* the same door for type qualification reasons. Normally with E1 doors if they're opened from the outside while armed the door will disarm, however, there is a way to put the door in an odd configuration (door armed, vent flap opened) that the door will not disarm if opened from the outside.
Like I said mistakes happen, as long as no one got hurt.
1. An actual emergency requiring slide deployment. I find this unlikely here. I can't come up with a situation in my head where you'd use only 1 slide when in the proximity of a bridge. I could see situations where you could use 3 slides plus bridge, or if there was a fire on the bridge, 3 slides. But not bridge and 1 slide.
2. Training event. All new FAs or FAs being type trained on their first aircraft type with slides (last part relevant for Porter, Q400s don't have slides) must complete a slide jump. To the best of my knowledge, there are only 2 training slides in the YYZ area one at Air Canada and one at Jazz. I know there are airlines (Sunwing in the past for example) who would use one of their actual planes for this, with a slide dedicated to the task (maintaince would swap out an actual slide with a training slide, FAs would do their jump, maintaince then removes slide and re attaches the regular one). You'd normally not do this at a gate, you'd do it in your maintaince area. Throwing it here as information, and another outside possibly.
3. Malfunction in the door, if the girt bar didn't disengage when disarmed, it's possible, but the girt bar indicator would still indicate armed.
4. A mistake by cabin crew. I rate this as the most likely. In Porter's case, you're introducing a new type of aircraft with slides to a group of flight attendants whom have spent their entire career thus far not having to worry about/deal with slides. Mistakes happen. I'm not personally trained on 195-E2 doors, but I am trained on 175-E1 doors, they're *likely* the same door for type qualification reasons. Normally with E1 doors if they're opened from the outside while armed the door will disarm, however, there is a way to put the door in an odd configuration (door armed, vent flap opened) that the door will not disarm if opened from the outside.
Like I said mistakes happen, as long as no one got hurt.
Feb 6, 23, 4:42 pm
#1706
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: YVR & YYZ
Programs: Aeroplan, Delta Skymiles, SPG
Posts: 382
Hi FT'ers,
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
Feb 13, 23, 3:54 pm
#1707
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 1,057
Hi FT'ers,
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
Feb 27, 23, 11:23 am
#1708
Join Date: Apr 2019
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 6
This is a big announcement for the Greater Montréal area: Porter is trying to emulate its success at YTZ by building a terminal at a secondary airport in Montréal, this one located in Longueuil (do a google search for "Porter Montréal terminal" as I can't yet post URLs on flytertalk...)
I guess they're now serving two airports in Toronto (YYZ and YTZ), so maybe they can make a go of it in MTL (serving YUL and now YHU). My worry is they're growing too fast.
I guess they're now serving two airports in Toronto (YYZ and YTZ), so maybe they can make a go of it in MTL (serving YUL and now YHU). My worry is they're growing too fast.
Feb 27, 23, 12:09 pm
#1709
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: YOW/HBA
Programs: Qantas Silver, MileagePlus Silver
Posts: 418
Porter developing modern passenger terminal at convenient Montréal Saint-Hubert Airpo
Feb 27, 23, 7:38 pm
#1710
Join Date: Nov 2022
Posts: 53
Hi FT'ers,
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
Hope you all are well.
Porter Airlines newbie - Has anyone flown on Porter lately, especially out of YYZ on their new Embraer jets? I am normally an AC customer but recent company travel program and software has restricted employees from selecting AC when there are cheaper alternatives avaialble, especially if the savings is over 50%. As such, my upcoming flight to YUL is on Porter.
Any recent reports or experiences on Porter and their new aircraft? Any suggestions/feedback/tips/hints appreciated. Thanks!
Regards,
bcrdukes
The good:
Seat are wider/way more comfortable than AC economy, wifi is free (if you have registered a free account on their website), and their snacks actually taste good! Also the cabin is perceivably quieter than the planes AC usually use between YYZ and YUL
the bad:
the flight was delayed by 30 minutes, and while their gate location at YUL is decent they use the farthest gate at YYZ T3.
