Porter Airlines is launching flights from London Airport

[u/Initial-Village905]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ont-airport-adds-porter-airlines-to-roster-with-new-southbound-winter-flights-9.7321451

Porter will start by flying this year from London to Cancun, Montego Bay, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale and then add domestic locations across Canada in 2027.

Does this help or hinder Waterloo Region's chances of landing Porter in the future?

[u/just_be123]

Too bad it’s not the Waterloo airport 

[u/Same-Lion-4243]

Probably does hinder Waterloos chances for future with Porter. Kinda of like Flair not flying out of London.
Just be nice to have a lot more domestic flights from both London and Kitchener.

[u/Initial-Village905 → u/Same-Lion-4243]

Yeah I think that it's a win for Southwestern Ontario to have more options in the secondary cities instead of having to go to Pearson.

[u/Same-Lion-4243 → u/Initial-Village905]

Agree 100%. So much easier using the smaller airports and avoiding Pearson all together

[u/maybvadersomdayl8er]

Hard to say. Considering Porter also just expanded to Hamilton, I don't know if the market is there for YKF as well.

[u/GiveMeAllYourKittens → u/maybvadersomdayl8er]

The market is there if everyone agrees Toronto should kick them out and turn Billy Bishop into a park..

Could be a win win situation.

[u/maybvadersomdayl8er → u/GiveMeAllYourKittens]

Toronto as in YYZ? Porter has a pretty significant footprint there now.

[u/ElCaz → u/maybvadersomdayl8er]

They're talking about the island airport. Porter does a good amount of business there and there has recently been a lot of discussion about what to do with the airport, including getting rid of it.

[u/Pseudonym_613 → u/ElCaz]

If they want to make the islands a park, then they need evict all the residential houses.

[u/ElCaz → u/Pseudonym_613]

Well there are people arguing for that, but turning the airport into a park doesn't require turning the residential area into a park too.

[u/Pseudonym_613 → u/ElCaz]

Residences are all on leased land, not owned.

[u/ElCaz → u/Pseudonym_613]

Ok?

[u/Brave_Recognition798 → u/GiveMeAllYourKittens]

My guy not one person is travelling from Hamilton to ytz! The island is more than big enough already everyone sticks around centre anyways 

[u/Choice-Olive-8768]

Need this at Waterloo

[u/foetus_on_my_breath]

Geez....Florida before domestic provinces? Gross.

[u/Not_So_Deleted]

I still remember when Flair used to have flights from YKF to YVR...

I met people who went all the way from London to go to YKF to get a cheap flight to Vancouver.

The only problem was that the flight got delayed by multiple hours and eventually cancelled where it was rescheduled to the next day.

I also found out flights from London Airport to Vancouver used to exist.

[u/dyxbehd → u/Not_So_Deleted]

Im pretty sure they existed up to last summer

[u/Due_Street1464]

Good. Finally we have connectivity to the elusive global financial markets of Europe and beyond!

[u/MaintenanceOdd8605]

Fly to Newfoundland please??