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British Airways launches an interline agreement with Canada’s Porter Airlines

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British Airways has teamed up with Porter Airlines to offer improved access to smaller cities in Canada.

This is in addition to, and not a replacement for, the current deal with WestJet.

Porter is Canada’s third-largest scheduled carrier and is based at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

British Airways Porter Airlines interline

The agreement covers:

  • onward connections from British Airways services to Toronto and Montreal to cities such as Edmonton, St John’s and Quebec City
  • onward connections from British Airways services to Newark, Washington and Boston to Ottawa

The benefits of an interline agreement are that:

  • you can book your entire trip on one ticket (BA flights with connections to Porter are now bookable on ba.com)
  • you are protected if one leg of the flight is delayed
  • you will have your baggage through-checked, and
  • you will usually have the baggage allowance for the long-haul flight carried over to your connection

Unfortunately, as a pure interline agreement, you will NOT earn Avios or tier points on Porter connections and you cannot redeem Avios on Porter Airlines. The most useful home for any miles you earn on Porter is probably Alaska Airlines (details here) which is a oneworld alliance member and so allows redemptions on British Airways.

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Comments (17)

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  • Alex G says:
    22 Dec22 December 04:52

    But all of this will only apply to cash tickets. You cannot add a connecting flight to a redemption. And BA will not interline your baggage if your two flights are on separate tickets.

    • LittleNick says:
      22 Dec22 December 19:34

      This I find one of the main downsides of redemptions, no option to pay for some amount to include the extra leg on the same ticket

      • Throwawayname says:
        23 Dec23 December 02:23

        That still beats my recent redemption on Gol using AF miles where I had to pay €50 to check in a piece of luggage onto a 90 minute flight.

  • BJ says:
    22 Dec22 December 05:52

    What’s up with the ‘Airways’ today?

  • Jonty says:
    22 Dec22 December 06:09

    Coming tomorrow…British Airways and American Airlines enter partial name sharing deal

  • Tim says:
    22 Dec22 December 07:18

    Shouldn’t the article title read “British AIRWAYS…”?

  • Qrfan says:
    22 Dec22 December 07:35

    Ottawa rather than ottowa.

  • Martin says:
    24 Dec24 December 08:21

    It’s been quite a long time since I’ve flown with Porter, but I still have fond memories of a Toronto to New York flight with them where the lovely flight attendant (born in Glasgow but living in Canada for decades), on hearing our Scottish accents, made sure we were not thirsty for the flight. I think she even dropped off another beer for me after the seatbelt sign had gone on.

    Their original ethos was to make flying a little bit glamorous and fun like it used to be, and they definitely felt like the antithesis of Air Canada at the time.

  • Dylan says:
    28 Dec28 December 10:32

    Porter is by far the best economy cabin I’ve flown. Like Martin said, it’s the anti-AC.

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