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Air North had amazing service when I travelled to Yukon. Porter is the nicest of all the national carriers.
I do miss Lynx Air for the short time it was around. They were basic but did the job and didn’t treat us like sardines to be stuffed in a can.
I liked when we had swoop. Vancouver or Abbotsford to London was $69. And once I had a Toronto to Vancouver for $15+50 YYZ airport improvement fee.
Air North is Great, I wish they flew everywhere
Porter still barely qualifies as national, and even that’s a super recent development, but I agree. No middle seats, no bullshit, just a cheap and efficient way to get from A to B with minimum discomfort and minimum airport hassle. Porter is awesome. I hope they soon buy dozens and dozens more of those Embraer jets and really give Westjet and Air Canada a real run for their money.
Even better if they can connect up their medium-haul network hubs with the Embraers and continue to use their Dash-8s to provide feeder service from under-served, under-utilized regional airports. I don’t mind hopping on a short connection as long as they can keep the price modest and it’s not connecting at either end of some 50-kilometers-across dystopian nightmare maze like Pearson (which Air Canada always insists on doing).
Porter and Westjet both have right idea spreading the traffic out to other airports around Toronto like City Center, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, etc. Porter has the even better idea of using some of them as hubs instead of Pearson and I’m all for it.
Not having to ride a Boeing aircraft is a great bonus to taking Porter.
It’s not much of a surprise to me Swoop is gone under WestJet, lately they seem to be trying to combine the barebones-ness of Flair Airlines with the terrible service quality and tardiness of Air Canada.
Support the smallest players when possible to encourage competition in the market. We need to shrink the size of Air Canada.
I do that already just because Air Canada tends to be absurdly overpriced.
We should have forced them to break apart when they were bailed out(again) :/
Or nationalised instead of bailed out.
100% nationalize with lots of oversight, use the fact that it owns 50% of the industry to drive prices down by establishing a profitable baseline that private ventures will have to compete with.
