American Airways has a brand new North American companion.
The Fort Price-based airline on Monday introduced a brand new codeshare settlement with Porter Airways, a Canadian provider with a fast-growing community of flights on brand-new planes.
As a part of the association, vacationers will be capable of earn and redeem American Airlines AAdvantage miles on sure Porter flights and earn Loyalty Points toward elite status. American loyalists will be capable of e-book seamless connections between the 2 airways through Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) by way of the provider’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 fashionable 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 provider except for Alaska Airways, its Oneworld alliance companion.
“Canada is among the hottest locations for vacationers, and American is happy to companion with Porter Airways to unlock extra journey choices for patrons,” Anmol Bhargava, American’s senior vp of worldwide alliances, stated in an announcement Monday.
What to find out about Porter Airways
Porter has been growing its network with a brand new fleet of Embraer E195-E2 planes — regional-size jets with a pseudo-premium cabin expertise, together with beer and wine served in glassware and free Wi-Fi for all passengers.
The provider’s partnership with American is not its first with a U.S. airline: Notably, Porter is less than two years into a loyalty tie-up with Alaska through the Toronto-based provider’s community of flights to and from the West Coast.
How the brand new American-Porter partnership works
Instantly, American flyers will be capable of hook up with Porter in Toronto to achieve 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 further Canadian locations: Calgary, Alberta; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Kelowna and Vancouver, British Columbia; St. John’s, Newfoundland; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Porter’s frequent flyers can even profit from the brand new partnership. The provider will promote codeshare itineraries by way of a number of of American’s largest hubs and finally supply connections to the U.S. provider’s intensive 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. At the same time as journey demand between the U.S. and Canada fell in 2025, the airline was set to supply 24% extra whole seats between the 2 international locations than it did in 2024, in response to information from aviation analytics agency Cirium.
Porter’s 2025 seats between Canada and the U.S. had been on observe to be up 125% over 2023.
Backside line
We must always notice: Porter’s ballooning U.S. route community will not assist American flyers by way of this tie-up because the association focuses on flights out and in of Toronto.
Nonetheless, the 2 carriers stated they “will proceed to judge alternatives to broaden this relationship additional” with extra codeshare locations and loyalty advantages — the latter maybe a strategy to prolong added perks to AAdvantage elite members aboard Porter.
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