PORTER TO LAUNCH OTTAWA-CALGARY SERVICE IN FEBRUARY

Count Calgary among Porter Airlines’ new destinations from Ottawa, with the airline announcing that flights between the cities will start on Feb. 14. The service is Porter’s latest expansion into Western Canada from the Capital, complementing existing flights to Vancouver and Edmonton.

The new route will ber operated by Porter’s state-of-the-art 132-seat, all-economy Embraer E195-E2 aircraft with a its two-by-two configuration (meaning no middle seats).

Departures from Ottawa will be at 6:20 p.m., arriving 8:49 p.m., with Calgary flights scheduled to leave at 8:50 a.m. arriving at 2:40 p.m. and providing connections to destinations across Eastern Canada and the United States.