Porter Airlines announces new flights from Canada to Cancún, Puerto Vallarta

Toronto-based Porter Airlines has announced caller flights from Canada to 2 of Mexico’s astir fashionable edifice destinations.

Starting successful November of this year, the flights volition depart from Toronto Pearson (YYZ), Ottawa (YOW) and Hamilton (YHM) airports to Cancún (CUN), Quintana Roo and Puerto Vallarta (PVR, Jalisco.

️ ¡@porterairlines aterrizará en Puerto Vallarta!☀️​

Con sus tres rutas, tienes más formas de conectar con este destino único:​
🛬 Ahora tienes más aerolíneas para llegar a Toronto y Ottawa.​
🆕 Y Hamilton se une al mapa desde @VallartaAirport.​

🌴✈️ ¿A qué ciudad volarás… pic.twitter.com/GSpSEmtNA1

— Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (@aeropuertosGAP) June 25, 2025

The Mexican destinations are portion of a Porter enlargement to Latin American and Caribbean formation spots that besides see Nassau, The Bahamas (NAS), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (GCM), and Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR). 

“These are Porter’s archetypal routes extracurricular of our longtime beingness passim Canada and the U.S,” said Kevin Jackson, president of  Porter Airlines. 

The caller routes volition run onboard 132-seat Embraer E195-E2 aircraft. 

These are the services to Mexican cities:

“This is simply a important improvement for anyone who wants to alert with Porter to much places and acquisition our award-winning work that focuses connected making flying enjoyable for system travelers,” Jackson said. 

Jackson was referring to Porter’s accent connected comfort. There are nary mediate seats connected Porter flights and the escaped brew and vino are served successful glassware.

No different hose connects Hamilton to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, truthful the caller formation is welcomed by Jalisco officials. 

“We are precise pleased with the maturation of the Canadian marketplace successful Jalisco,” said authorities Tourism Minister Michelle Fridman Hirsch. “This is simply a cardinal infinitesimal to fortify our ties, item the closeness and affinity we share, and marque it wide [that] successful Jalisco we invited Canadians with unfastened arms.”. 

She pointed retired that with this caller route, Jalisco is present connected with 17 airports crossed Canada.  

Air rider question betwixt Canada and Mexico is connected the rise, yet surpassing pre-pandemic numbers. According to the paper El Imparcial, the 5.3 cardinal passengers betwixt the 2 countries successful 2024 marked a 10.41% summation implicit the 4.8 cardinal successful 2019.

In contrast, Mexican tourism to the United States has precocious decreased.

With reports from Business Wire