American Airways has a brand new North American associate.
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 to earn and redeem American Airways AAdvantage miles on sure Porter flights and earn Loyalty Factors towards elite standing. American loyalists will be capable to ebook seamless connections between the 2 airways by way of Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) by 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 common 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 other than Alaska Airways, its Oneworld alliance associate.
“Canada is among the hottest locations for vacationers, and American is happy to associate with Porter Airways to unlock extra journey choices for patrons,” Anmol Bhargava, American’s senior vice chairman of worldwide alliances, stated in a press release Monday.
What to find out about Porter Airways
The provider’s partnership with American is not its first with a U.S. airline: Notably, Porter is lower than two years right into a loyalty tie-up with Alaska by way of the Toronto-based provider’s community of flights to and from the West Coast.
How the brand new American-Porter partnership works
Immediately, American flyers will be capable to hook up with Porter in Toronto to succeed in 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 may even profit from the brand new partnership. The provider will promote codeshare itineraries by a number of of American’s largest hubs and ultimately provide 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 in recent times. Whilst journey demand between the U.S. and Canada fell in 2025, the airline was set to supply 24% extra whole seats between the 2 nations than it did in 2024, based on information from aviation analytics agency Cirium.
Porter’s 2025 seats between Canada and the U.S. had been on monitor to be up 125% over 2023.
Backside line
We must always observe: Porter’s ballooning U.S. route community will not assist American flyers by this tie-up for the reason that association focuses on flights out and in of Toronto.
Nevertheless, the 2 carriers stated they “will proceed to guage alternatives to broaden this relationship additional” with extra codeshare locations and loyalty advantages — the latter maybe a option to lengthen added perks to AAdvantage elite members aboard Porter.
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