Hello from Canada, as I’ve just kicked off my review trip to Bangkok! For the first segment of my trip, I flew Porter Airlines’ Embraer E195-E2 on the 3hr15min flight from Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Montreal (YUL). I flew the carrier’s most premium product, which is PorterReserve. The airline markets this as its “all-inclusive economy experience,” but I don’t think that actually does justice to what it is.
Canada’s Porter has been growing at an incredibly fast pace with beautiful new Embraer jets, and I’ve been meaning to check out this experience for a long time. I booked my ticket for just 10,000 Alaska Atmos Rewards points, which is an unbelievable bargain, so of course it was worth it (since for that many points, I’d take the most basic type of economy experience).
In this post, I’d like to share my initial thoughts, and then I’ll have a full review upon returning home.
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The seats have very generous legroom, and at 36” of pitch, you should have no issues stretching out. Now, I lucked out on this flight, because I had an empty seat next to me, and obviously that makes a massive difference in terms of the perception you’ll have of a product (for that matter, I had the entire row to myself).
The airline markets PorterReserve as being an “all-inclusive economy experience,” though really, it offers a lot more than that. On the ground, it includes everything from two checked bags, to priority check-in, to priority security at select airports, to priority boarding.
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