In late 2023, Alaska Airlines and Porter Airlines announced plans to collaborate. The partnership has been very slow to ramp up. In early 2025, we finally saw the carriers introduce reciprocal mileage earning opportunities, and now we’ve seen the companies introduce reciprocal mileage redemption opportunities. Let’s cover all the details.
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Canada doesn’t have a One World airline so it would make sense. WestJet is getting close with Delta and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were fully let into SkyTeam sometime soon.
I regularly fly between Orlando and Toronto for work (once weekly), on Porter, booked via Alaska Airlines (75k here). When I originally started flying, I was getting the 100% mileage credit, but the last two months, the Alaska system only credits the 50% and you have to call in to get it corrected. Agents say they deal with it every day, so make sure you keep a close eye on the earnings after a flight!
I love both Alaska and Porter Airlines.
Canada is great, Toronto especially. What an incredible city most American cities can only dream of being.
American Airlines is very weak to Canada....seems like a missed opportunity for AA to not engage Porter. Maybe this is a precursor to Porter getting into Oneworld.
Any avgeeks here who get a chance to fly into Billy Bishop (YTZ), do it! Do it as quickly as you'd retain a Paul, Weiss lawyer for any serious matter.
American Airlines is weak to anywhere that isn't Phoenix, Dallas, or Charlotte lmfao
They also fly out of Montreal to EWR and some other cities, and have plans to build a terminal at a smaller air field close to downtown Montreal.
Ben, I confess I used to chuckle every time I read you kvetch about individual air nozzles and then yesterday I plopped down into my J seat on AF's older A350 and reached up for the nozzle, found nothing...a felt such disappointment
I've only had a couple of flights on Porter and a couple on Alaska, and all of them involved Dash-8s by some cosmic coincidence. Good experiences on both, so if they're cooperating (and I can charge my Alaska miles to AAdvantage), there may be more flights in the future. I don't think that an ORD-YYZ-SFO flight is too outrageous a backtrack to try out the E195-E2, an aircraft that I feel positively about.
A few mistakes in the article.
The FF earn partnership starting in January 2024; with the promise of burn in 2024. This eventually came to fruition on July 1, 2025 (Canada Day ironically).
Remember, with booking through AS, you can cancel for free and redeposit to your wallet...what you showed was a Basic fare with porter. I do agree Porter can be very much cheaper; but a stack of fees come into play. Hence why AS is more expensive generally. But I say check both just in case. Booking through AS does give more MP earning of course....so theres that extra too.
Remember, when you burn miles with AS on Porter - You get EQM of the distance flown.
**having flown PD several times in the past week on AS mileage ticket....it posted as revenue....so a 22.5k ticket in PorterReserve only cost me 17k.....get it while the loophole still exists.
Ben said "I think the Mileage Plan angle is probably more interesting [than the VIPorter angle] for the OMAAT community." He's right.
- most of OMAAT community are US residents
- Most of OMAAT community can't easily get Canadian credit cards, VIPorter points
But if the two points don't apply to you and you have access to both Alaska Mileage Plan and VIPorter, do your homework. There's another reason for porter fliers to focus on AS points and not VIPorter points: award pricing. My anecdotal, nonscientific perusal of last-minute YYZ-LAS showed me porteReserve (Premium Economy) for 17,500 Alaska points, 89,000 VIPorter points. And in case any Americans are jealous, suspecting we have a sneaky Canadian advantage on your home-grown airline...
porter points are more expensive to earn than Alaska miles. The best VIPorter credit card (issued by BMO in Canada) earns one point for USD$0.68 on unbonused spend.
20k Bonus earned if CAD$5k spent in 3 mos
20k added if CAD$9k total spent in 6 mos (bonus witheld until 180 days after account opening, regardless of when Spend is achieved)
30k added if CAD$18k total spent in 12 months (witheld until 365 days after account opening, regardless of when Spend is achieved).
If you've read this far, I bet you're liking your BoA Alaska VISA and Alaska's Mileage Plan.
Why is it so much worse in Canada? We have an expression: "Because Canada."
Porter really would make a great OneWorld (OW+IAG partner) airline. They'd automatically get the ability to let their passengers fly to LHR and DUB (on BA & EI) via their major hub in Toronto. And Porter is already significantly larger in Toronto than WestJet.