Porter adds more flights from Vancouver to popular Canadian cities
If you’re planning to keep your vacation plans within Canada this summer, Porter Airlines is making it easier to travel east by increasing flights between Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
According to Porter’s 2025 summer schedule, its route from Vancouver International Airport to Toronto Pearson will increase to six flights daily.
Flights between Vancouver and Montreal will double weekly capacity to 14 trips.
Porter noted that domestic flights during the summer period account for 80 per cent of its network capacity, up from the 75 per cent that was previously indicated in its initial summer plan.
“This is balanced by targeted frequency reductions in select U.S. markets. Despite the changes, Porter’s presence in the Canada-U.S. market will be 25 per cent larger than last summer,” stated the carrier in a release.
Porter Airlines president Kevin Jackson added that despite the airline shifting some of its capacity to domestic routes to account for travel interest, it is “still seeing an overall increase in U.S. travel on Porter flights.”
In March, Porter confirmed it was scaling back its marketing to U.S. destinations due to uncertainty brought on by the current trade war sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
New data from YVR also indicates that current Canada-U.S. tensions have not yet resulted in significant passenger volume impacts at the airport.
YVR’s February 2025 performance statistics show that the airport recorded a total of 1.91 million passengers over the course of the month, including 436,000 passengers from the U.S. transborder market.
This was a slight dip from the 448,000 U.S. route passengers the airport recorded in January and reflects the usual month-over-month traveller decrease seen between January and February that’s been seen in previous years.
With files from Kenneth Chan