Porter Airlines

✅ Verified Review | I used to be their biggest fan and recommend them to everyone I knew from friends to clients. I live and work in New York and am from Toronto so I go back several times a year to visit family. Usually I can only come for a weekend or so, which makes these constant and awful delays a complete nightmare. What's the point of even going for a weekend if I lose 50% of my time to Porter's delays. Yes, I love the outfits, cabin crew service, the cute Owl, the free coffee and snacks but none of the above matters when the flights are constantly delayed. As I write this I am stuck on the tarmac at Newark trying to deplane after a seriously delayed flight from Toronto. My Sunday is completely ruined and I have so many weekends similar to this spent wasted with Porter. I'd be better off driving the 10 hours at this rate! Don't be bothered with them. Great when they first started but pretty terrible today. Basically like a lot of superficial stuff layered on top of poor basic airline service aka - getting to your destination on time. Thanks for nothing Porter!

✅ Verified Review | Toronto to Chicago. I have never experienced bad customer service like I did with Porter. The first time my boyfriend and I booked a flight with Porter our flight was cancelled due to bad weather. It was almost 11 PM so we were informed that we should go home and we will be contacted by someone in "20-30 minutes" to get details about our alternate flight - we went home trusting the airline to keep their word. This call never came. We kept trying to reach the call centre but they shut at 11 PM! We ended up paying a huge fare to finally fly with Air Canada as Porter never got back to us. Since then we have contacted Porter through the web form, call centre and even at the airport desk - this happened 2 months back and our complaint has still not been handled. I work in the travel industry and am not a fan of North American airlines but this was a new low. I would not recommend this airline at all - I'd rather pay a little extra to fly with someone more reliable as eventually we ended up paying a 1000$ extra for a last minute ticket with another airline.

✅ Verified Review | I went to the airport and while in security I received an email from porter that my flight from Toronto to Windsor had been cancelled. That would be the second half of my flight, there was not to be a rescheduled flight until 5:00pm that night. I was unable to make any arrangements at that time as I had to board. Ultimately when I arrived in Toronto to speak with the staff I was told that it would be too bad for me, and that there was a staffing issue so I was stuck in Toronto. I could rent a car or take a train and be reimbursed later. I took the train. The next day I watched my phone like a hawk for any trouble regarding the returning flight for my daughter and myself. I was disgusted when I was informed at 10:26am that my 1:30pm flight was cancelled. yet again because of staffing issues! I was told that there was nothing they would do for me, and that I could just try to find my own way again and ask later for reimbursement. I took another train at my own expense to Toronto to make it home. I did not get home with my daughter until after midnight because of this, My entire weekend was spent on a train and a phone on hold with Porter, I was screwed around by Porter and the staffing issues that were clearly at the forefront of the issue, these flights were booked months ago and were cancelled with no time for alternate arrangements to be made. I called for many many hours on Aug 12 and 13th as did my boyfriend, we both sat on hold for over 3 hours several different times as there is no one taking any of the calls for customer service. In the course of 48 hours I had 2 cancelled flights, Seven delays.

✅ Verified Review | My most recent flight was from Timmins to Toronto, scheduled to depart at 3:45 pm on August 20th. Before departing for the airport, I checked the status of the flight and noticed that the morning flight from Toronto to Timmins had been cancelled. This happened to me the week prior. No reason is given for the flight cancellation, but it appears that if the flight is not fully booked it will be cancelled, usually within hours of scheduled departure. Unfortunately this appears to be a routine practice for Porter. Upon checking my scheduled flight, there was no delay indicated. The flight was scheduled to depart at 3:45. At 3:47, I received an email indicating the flight would be delayed and would not depart until 4:17 pm. I was at the airport and checked in when I received this email. A 32 minute delay is minimal, but the actual departure was not until 5:50 pm. As is usual, there was a distinct lack of communication from Porter staff. I have been given a $100 voucher from Porter, due to the previously mentioned flight cancellation. The voucher must be used towards another Porter flight. I will not use the voucher, nor will I fly with Porter airlines again. The resulting inconvenience caused by delayed and regularly cancelled flights does not make the discount fares any more palatable. Porter are inconsistent and unreliable.

✅ Verified Review | Toronto to Ottawa. Delays and cancellations. This airline used to be very good when it first started out. On-time and reasonably priced. There is not a single time I have flown with them over the last three months if the plane has left on time, and during the last 2 flights, including today, the flight was cancelled and I was put on another flight - first 2 hours later, and today, 10 hours later. This is for a flight that lasts 50 minutes in the air. Porter has almost on the hour flights to Ottawa, but they put me on a flight that is 10 hours away and ruined my plans. In addition, the call centre takes on average 40 minutes to talk to someone, all the while hearing "your call is important to us". The seats are shabby and frayed, aircraft is dirty, airport staff are sullen. The only good thing is that their snacks are good - hardly a reason to fly with them.

✅ Verified Review | Porter is the worst airline I have ever flown with and will never travel with them again. My flight was cancelled and rescheduled for the next day. My rebooked connection was delayed three times. Ultimately, I arrived at my destination 24 hours late. The worst part was the customer service. Gate agents would tell us one thing and the people in line behind us another. Employees had no training and did not know what to do to accommodate customers. My original flight was two months ago and I have had zero response from customer service and no follow through on the vouchers that were promised to us at the gate. I need a simple piece of paper that state that the flight was indeed cancelled, and the reason, so that I can submit it to my travel insurance. Customer service cannot even be bothered to send this documentation. So I am about to lose out on my insurance coverage because their customer service just doesn't exist.

✅ Verified Review | Do not use Porter Airlines. The flight itself was fine. Pretty smooth for the type of planes. My flight was delayed since the day before. It was delayed 2 additional times while waiting at Toronto and still did not leave in a timely manner and there as no weather or otherwise justifiable issue. Customer service on the phone was terrible even when I spoke to a supervisor. Save yourself! Don't do it! I read poor reviews and still gave it a chance.

✅ Verified Review | Flight cancelled 4 hours prior, without any reason given. Weather is sunny and clear both in Toronto and Timmins. Online check in requests cell number to reach passengers for important messages. Text message re: cancelled flight not received - never sent. Upon questioning customer service at Porter (on hold for 63 minutes), Porter does not use text messaging for important information, only email! Always check your email, never assume that Porter will text you critical information, such as flight cancellations. According to customer service: we communicate by email. My call to customer service ended in being disconected by a supervisor after repeatedly questioning why the flight was cancelled. Bottom line, don't rely on Porter airlines for reliable scheduled flights, and if you do, check your email, not your texts to see if the flight has been cancelled for no apparent reason. Air Canada is my next scheduled flight.

✅ Verified Review | My flight from Sudbury to Toronto today was cancelled with 1 hours notice. I picked a mid day flight expecting that I would be re-booked on the later flight if there was a problem. Well as I feared my flight was canceled, but I was automatically re-booked on a flight tomorrow instead of later today. I have a hotel reservation in Toronto tonight and an early appointment. I can't get through on the phone to Porter. Been on hold for hours and disconnected once already. Avoid this terrible airline that can't even answer their phones.

✅ Verified Review | Montreal to Windsor via Toronto. Extremely long delays both from Windsor to Montreal on July 29th and from Montreal to Windsor on August 12th. We chose to fly as opposed to driving to Montreal to be fresh and full of energy during a scout camp. However, on July 29th, instead of landing in Montreal at 4pm, we landed after 8pm, and didn't get to our camp until 10pm, at which time it was too late to set up our camping area and we had to sleep on the ground under the sky. On a way back, our flight was delayed again 4 hours. All in all, over 8 hours spent at the airport, hungry, with nothing to do. And we paid a lot of money to travel comfortably - ironically, friends who decided to drive got to the camp and back to Windsor ahead of us. Please avoid this airline at all cost. Terrible service and no respect for passengers! They should be giving us a refund!