Porter to unveil more airline partnerships in 2024 amid expansion ramp-up

Porter Airlines’ CE says the carrier plans to announce several new airline partnerships in 2024, similar to its recently inked deal with Alaska Airlines, as the company continues on its aggressive expansion plan. “We expect to be announcing a number of new partnerships over the next year,” Porter CEO Michael Deluce said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Canada, adding that the airline is “in various stages of either negotiation or implementation” of codesharing deals with other carriers. “Porter’s broad domestic network is very attractive for partner carriers, and these sorts of partnerships allow greater penetration of markets you otherwise wouldn’t serve and really add traffic on an existing network.” Earlier this month, Porter signed a new deal with Alaska Airlines that will allow passengers to fly to 18 western US destinations, including Portland, Seattle, San Diego and Phoenix, via an Alaska Airlines connection. This came just two weeks after the company announced a joint venture with Air Transat, which expands on the existing codesharing agreement between the two carriers and will allow Porter access to Transat’s transatlantic and sun destinations. “It’s always about market expansion,” Deluce said. “These (partnerships) really widen the market size that you’re offering… it’s not traffic you otherwise would have had. So it allows you to bolster your frequencies on domestic markets, and make the overall offering stronger.”<br/>