American Airways has a brand new North American accomplice.
The Fort Price-based airline on Monday introduced a brand new codeshare settlement with Porter Airways, a Canadian service with a fast-growing community of flights on brand-new planes.
As a part of the association, vacationers will be capable to earn and redeem American Airways AAdvantage miles on sure Porter flights and earn Loyalty Factors towards elite standing. American loyalists will be capable to e book seamless connections between the 2 airways through Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) by way of the service’s web site and cellular app.
The setup ought to permit new alternatives for AAdvantage members to earn and redeem miles (and earn loyalty credit score) on flights to common Canadian locations like Halifax in Nova Scotia, St. John’s in Newfoundland and Vancouver in British Columbia.
The brand new tie-up will simply be American’s deepest with one other North American service apart from Alaska Airways, its Oneworld alliance accomplice.
“Canada is among the hottest locations for vacationers, and American is happy to accomplice with Porter Airways to unlock extra journey choices for purchasers,” Anmol Bhargava, American’s senior vice chairman of worldwide alliances, mentioned in an announcement Monday.
What to learn about Porter Airways
The service’s partnership with American is not its first with a U.S. airline: Notably, Porter is lower than two years right into a loyalty tie-up with Alaska through the Toronto-based service’s community of flights to and from the West Coast.
How the brand new American-Porter partnership works
Instantly, American flyers will be capable to connect with Porter in Toronto to succeed in the next Canadian locations:
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- Edmonton, Alberta
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
Within the coming weeks, the partnership will open up a number of extra Canadian locations: Calgary, Alberta; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Kelowna and Vancouver, British Columbia; St. John’s, Newfoundland; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Porter’s frequent flyers may even profit from the brand new partnership. The service will promote codeshare itineraries by way of a number of of American’s largest hubs and finally provide connections to the U.S. service’s in depth Caribbean, Central America and South America community.
As soon as a smaller boutique airline, Porter has grown its fleet, route community and relevance to cross-border vacationers lately. Whilst journey demand between the U.S. and Canada fell in 2025, the airline was set to supply 24% extra complete seats between the 2 nations than it did in 2024, in line with information from aviation analytics agency Cirium.
Porter’s 2025 seats between Canada and the U.S. have been on observe to be up 125% over 2023.
Backside line
We should always be aware: Porter’s ballooning U.S. route community will not assist American flyers by way of this tie-up for the reason that association focuses on flights out and in of Toronto.
Nevertheless, the 2 carriers mentioned they “will proceed to judge alternatives to broaden this relationship additional” with extra codeshare locations and loyalty advantages — the latter maybe a method to lengthen added perks to AAdvantage elite members aboard Porter.
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