Porter Airlines has established an aircraft maintenance base at Greater Sudbury Airport. This development contributes to Porter servicing its fleet of 29 Bombardier Q400 aircraft and creates eight full-time positions at the airport.
The base is located in a hangar owned by Sudbury Airport Community Development Corporation. Porter engineers perform daily overnight maintenance on an aircraft that is returned to service the following day.
Start-up costs for the project were partly supported by funding from the provincial government's Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.
Porter Airlines currently operates up to three daily roundtrip flights between Sudbury and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. The airline is making significant investments in Northern Ontario this year, including opening a base for pilots and flight attendants in Thunder Bay.
