A Porter Airlines flight seen from the ground. Credit: Ken Mist / CC

Porter Will Not Fly Again In 2020

Jason Wellwood November 9, 2020 10:32 am Last Updated on July 2, 2025 5:36 am

Porter airlines is hoping to be flying again in the new year.

The company says it’s delaying until Thursday, February 11th, due to rising COVID-19 cases and its’ impact on customer demand.

The company president adds deferring service until then is not something it anticipated doing when the pandemic began earlier this year, and the cumulative effects of COVID-19 have suffocated any plans to resume service in 2020.

Porter hopes this will give more time to develop rapid testing solutions as a way to lift government imposed restrictions on travel.

The airline grounded planes in March at the on-set of the pandemic.

Jason Wellwood

Originally from southern Ontario, Jason found his way here and fell in love with the community and music scene of Thunder Bay over twenty years ago. In between various stints on radio, television and writing, Jason is a dad, a partner and (some would consider) a zoo keeper (seriously, he has a LOT of pets).

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