Review: Porter Airlines PorterReserve Embraer E195-E2 (FLL-YUL)

Number of lavatories on a short sub two hours flight is reasonable but on their Transcontinental flights PD operates, it does make for a really unpleasant experience, especially with under one hour left in the flight when everyone starts making a mad dash to the bathroom.

I just took PorterReserve roundtrip PHX-YVR last weekend, and enjoyed the flight. for 20k Atmos points I thought it was a great deal.

Will be flying PorterReserve again to YYZ in May, and I'm looking forward to flying them again.

Nice review.

Just curious, you mentioned that you don't frequently transit through YUL. As a reader, it appears that you are often heading through there, especially for more selective airlines such as Swiss, that often sell tickets through that airport. In fact, when I went through there a few weeks ago, I was reminded of the plentiful OMAAT reviews set in YUL.

YUL is a terrible airport: cramped, lack of decent lounges and a rather lousy ground experience overall especially for transiting.

Last month I flew PD from PHX to YVR in their extra leg room section (just behind reserve). The flight was great, but the pre-departure experience was rough. I booked through AA which wasn't the issue, you have to pay extra for a digital boarding pass and a carry on bag, unelss you get a printed pass then you don't. . .weird. Also, make sure you check in at the gate with your boarding pass and passport, they don't do it during boarding like some US airlines. Finally on my way back, I had my digital pass, got through pre-check and then they made me go back and get a printed boarding pass and go through security again (this time it worked). That was really weird and don't understand it. The arrival experience at both ends was good, but they need to do a LOT of work on their depature / up through security process.

Also, I could not get anything except for audio to stream on my flights. My Iphone works fine on AA but not for some reason on PD.

Will I fly them again, yes since Addvantage if my primary plan. Do I hope they get Wifi and pre-security process worked out. . Yes but boy it's didn't leave agreat taste in my mouth, however the fruit and cheese plate was excellent!

There's no way this Atmos pricing for porterReserve will last, so get while the gettin's good. Porter's own loyalty program charges insanely high dynamic prices for all Reserve trips and it won't be long before they wake up and realize that they're filling these seats at affordable prices, which is unacceptable to a Canadian airline.

I had to do the same with Canadian security on the way out of Canada (go back to check-in and print my boarding pass). If I had to guess it’s because the doc check needed to be done before security (instead of after if you don’t check a bag in the US).

In me experience, whenever I fly into a Canadian airport from the US (I have arrived at YYC, YYZ, and YUL), our flights will typically arrive at the international terminal or the transborder terminal. I have found the immigration agents at YUL to be a bit mean in all of my experiences at the airport though (I'm curious if others have had similar experiences)

Hi. Just passed through YUL, clearing both Canadian and US Customs within 30 minutes. (Denied boarding for connection, simultaneously re-ticketed on direct itinerary into USA.) Both times, the lines were lightning fast and, entering the preclearance site, was able to get a global entry interview done with no problem whatsoever. Maybe you were just there on worse than typical days, because everything was working smoothly in my experience.

Really? I think it's more palatable than ORD or EWR.

You didn't try one of their cocktails? They're strong!!

Would you recommend this flight so much had the seat next to you been occupied by a stranger?

Huge fan of Porter and their cute racoon mascot. It’s honestly worth signing up for their frequent flyer program just to receive email updates with that cute racoon doing different activities. Best yet, no middle seats. It’s like the Airlink of North America. Glad to see them expanding. E2 is also a beautiful aircraft.

Would you rather have a middle seats and two strangers? Ya betta check yo-self… Ay-Ay-ron…

Vin? Or Gin?

For real, those fares are epic. Shh, shh… don’t ruin it… bah!

YYZ and YUL often have great redemptions to Europe and Asia in J, so I can see why Ben routes through there regularly. Not always getting to East Asia easily from Miami either. Gotta stop somewhere. Might as well be with our friendly and wonderful neighbors to the north.

Have you considered purposely dehydrating or consulting with a urologist? I, also, tend to go often, and have tried many things to reduce my visits to the lav, such as no alcohol or caffeinated beverages, if it becomes ‘too much.’ Or you can be like Liam Neeson and just piss yaself when ya drink and go with it.

I’ve taken their Dash-8 between EWR-YTZ. Billy Bishop is. Pretty cool if visiting the city of Toronto. Of course, it’s mostly shorter flights from there. Porter has been flying E2 via LGA-YYT, which is cool, too.

*YYZ (sowie)

For sure. So I was surprised to see Ben say he rarely sees YUL.

That doesn’t really answer my question. Also no need to be a tw@t.

I switched to Porter from AC and WS for my domestic flights in Canada, specially from my home airport of YOW, I have seen the evolution of Porter with some hiccups but you see their effort, and the improvement reached in the last month. Also. I get my miles with AS Atmos, and when AA code share flights to the US from YOW I got miles in my AAdvantage program. I hope AA will do the same as AS does with points in all Porter flights, no codesharing required. I hope they will become ONEWORLD Connect at least...

YUL arrivals is still almost heaven compared to YYZ international baggage claim, but both are considerably more like a developing country's airport scene than you'd expect for Canada.

YUL is one of the worst airports in North America... The connectivity is not that great and it is dominated for nightmare of AC... I rather taking flights via YYZ than via YUL.

They need an actual business class. At least a properly blocked seat with a more significant meal. They fly some incredibly long routes for what is a regional jet,