Porter Airlines has launched three new routes between Ottawa International Airport and Boston, New York-Newark and Thunder Bay, providing new travel links for the region.

The routes are part of Porter’s broader expansion plan in Ottawa including the addition of new maintenance hangars that are currently under construction at YOW that will serve as a primary maintenance facility for the airline’s new E195-E2 fleet.

Porter is the only airline providing year-round daily direct flights to Boston and Thunder Bay from Ottawa.

The new daily non-stop routes are served by 78-seat De Havilland Dash 8-400 aircraft. They include:

• Ottawa-Boston (BOS) – daily
• Ottawa-New York/Newark (EWR) – 2x daily
• Ottawa-Thunder Bay, Ont. (YQT) – 2x daily

A number of one-stop connecting routes are also created with the introduction of the flights.

“This builds on our already extensive network in Eastern Canada and substantially increases the number of destinations served directly from Ottawa,” says Porter executive VP and COO Kevin Jackson.

Porter currently operates eight non-stop routes from Ottawa International Airport, with Charlottetown scheduled to become the ninth on May 17. Detailed schedules can be found on www.flyporter.com.