Porter Airlines continues to expand its offerings from Hamilton’s international airport with a third Florida destination, just one year after the carrier first took off from the single-terminal airfield.
The airline already flies from Hamilton to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, but earlier this week it announced it would add four weekly Hamilton-Tampa flights beginning 18DEC26.
According to the Hamilton Spectator, Porter has seen more than 300,000 passengers pass through YHM over the past 12 months, with more than 3,000 flights taking off from the airport, located in the city’s Mount Hope neighbourhood, in the last year. Some have even linked Porter's Hamilton expansion to the city's acquisition of new teams in both the American Hockey League and the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
“We are here for the long-term,” Porter’s senior vice president and COO, Edmond Eldebs, told the Spectator. “We’re very happy to continue building out our schedule from Hamilton.”
He added that Hamilton sales are performing well this summer and the airline has no plans to reduce capacity in the coming months, a strategy many airlines have turned to in the face of record jet fuel costs.
Porter flies directly to eight Canadian destinations from Hamilton, as well as sun destinations including Nassau, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta.
