Porter Airlines

Porter Airlines is a Canadian carrier headquartered in Toronto, operating as Porter Airlines (Canada) Limited and Porter Airlines Inc. under IATA designator PD, IATA ticketing plate 451, and ICAO code POE. It is the challenger to the Air Canada / WestJet duopoly in Canada, flying an Embraer E195-E2 and De Havilland Dash 8 fleet across domestic, transborder and sun destinations, and it joined IATA as a member in 2026 following IOSA certification. Porter sits in the distribution chain as a conventional GDS-intermediated carrier: agencies reach its inventory through the GDSs (Sabre is named explicitly in Porter's agency terms, and Travelport is the channel Duffel uses to resell Porter content) or through Porter's own ticketless Travel Agency Portal on flyporter.com. Porter's API posture is honestly stated as none-published. There is no developer portal, no public or partner API documentation, no OpenAPI, and no NDC endpoint of any kind. The developer, developers and apis subdomains do not resolve; api.flyporter.com resolves but does not answer on 80 or 443; docs.flyporter.com redirects to an internal Google Drive. Every well-known spec path returns 404 and the whole site sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge with ai-train=no content signals. Access is accreditation-gated: an agency must hold ARC accreditation or an IATA Passenger Sales Agency Agreement, register on flyporter.com, and accept Porter's Agency Terms and Conditions, which assert Porter ownership of all Porter Data, prohibit scraping and redistribution, and revoke all data rights the moment an appointment is suspended or terminated. There is no exit path beyond a written PIPEDA access request to Porter's Privacy Officer.

Porter Airlines is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Travel, Canada, Aviation, Airline, and Flights.

Porter Airlines’ developer surface includes signup flow, support, and 14 more developer resources.

14.5/100 minimal Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
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TravelCanadaAviationAirlineFlightsDistributionGDSBookingTravel AgentsLoyalty

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 14.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Porter Airlines Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: porter-airlines
name: Porter Airlines
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/porter-airlines/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
kind: company
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
description: 'Porter Airlines is a Canadian carrier headquartered in Toronto, operating as Porter Airlines (Canada) Limited
  and Porter Airlines Inc. under IATA designator PD, IATA ticketing plate 451, and ICAO code POE. It is the challenger to
  the Air Canada / WestJet duopoly in Canada, flying an Embraer E195-E2 and De Havilland Dash 8 fleet across domestic, transborder
  and sun destinations, and it joined IATA as a member in 2026 following IOSA certification. Porter sits in the distribution
  chain as a conventional GDS-intermediated carrier: agencies reach its inventory through the GDSs (Sabre is named explicitly
  in Porter''s agency terms, and Travelport is the channel Duffel uses to resell Porter content) or through Porter''s own
  ticketless Travel Agency Portal on flyporter.com. Porter''s API posture is honestly stated as none-published. There is no
  developer portal, no public or partner API documentation, no OpenAPI, and no NDC endpoint of any kind. The developer, developers
  and apis subdomains do not resolve; api.flyporter.com resolves but does not answer on 80 or 443; docs.flyporter.com redirects
  to an internal Google Drive. Every well-known spec path returns 404 and the whole site sits behind a Cloudflare bot challenge
  with ai-train=no content signals. Access is accreditation-gated: an agency must hold ARC accreditation or an IATA Passenger
  Sales Agency Agreement, register on flyporter.com, and accept Porter''s Agency Terms and Conditions, which assert Porter
  ownership of all Porter Data, prohibit scraping and redistribution, and revoke all data rights the moment an appointment
  is suspended or terminated. There is no exit path beyond a written PIPEDA access request to Porter''s Privacy Officer.'
tags:
- Travel
- Canada
- Aviation
- Airline
- Flights
- Distribution
- GDS
- Booking
- Travel Agents
- Loyalty
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/porter-airlines-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/
- type: TravelAgentPortal
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/services/travel-agents
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/services/travel-agents/agency-registration
- type: Login
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/services/travel-agents/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/Content/Documents/TravelAgents/en/terms-and-conditions.pdf
- type: Policy
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/Content/Documents/TravelAgents/en/booking-and-ticketing-policy.pdf
- type: Policy
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/Content/Documents/TravelAgents/en/porter-airlines-commission-policy.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://porteragency.zendesk.com/hc/en-ca/requests/new
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/about-porter/media-centre
- type: About
  url: https://www.flyporter.com/en-ca/about-porter/who-we-are
- type: Registry
  url: https://www.iata.org/en/about/members/airline-list/porter-airlines/670/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/porter-airlines
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/porter-airlines-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/porter-airlines-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com