{"id":45075,"date":"2026-05-14T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/45075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:29:08","slug":"porter-grows-western-network-with-ottawa-kelowna-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/45075\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter Grows Western Network with Ottawa\u2013Kelowna Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kelowna-international-airport.jpg\" alt=\"Kelowna International Airport\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  \/>Kelowna International Airport<\/p>\n<p>Passengers travelling between Ottawa to Kelowna now have the option of flying non-stop with Porter Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Porter, which has been expanding its presence in British Columbia, made its inaugural round-trip flight between Ottawa International Airport (YOW) and Kelowna International Airport (YLW) this week. The service will operate five times a week, increasing to six flights in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding our presence in Kelowna strengthens our Western Canada network and reinforces our commitment to connecting travellers across the country,\u201d said Andrew Pierce, Porter&#8217;s vice president of network planning and reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy enhancing connectivity between the west and the east, we\u2019re opening up more convenient, reliable options for Canadians to travel where they want to go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier said this route will complement existing Toronto Pearson flights servicing Vancouver and Victoria. Flights will operate on the new 132-seat Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, noted for having the lowest fuel consumption per seat, per trip in its class.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Route<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Departure<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arrival<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ottawa (YOW) to Kelowna (YLW)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">9:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">11:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kelowna (YLW) to Ottawa (YOW)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">12:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All times local<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelowna International Airport Passengers travelling between Ottawa to Kelowna now have the option of flying non-stop with Porter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20071,61,8496],"class_list":["post-45075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-kelowna","tag-ottawa","tag-porter-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}