Porter Airlines Nearly Grounded over Safety Concerns

Yeah, but you also don't have to get to Pearson to use them. Also, free booze.

Porter Airlines, the best thing to happen to air travel in eastern Canada and the northern U.S. since on-demand entertainment, was nearly grounded by the federal government due to an undisclosed safety issue at some point in the past six years. The Toronto-based airline, the only one in Canada to offer free booze to its grateful passengers, was the biggest of a handful of small carriers to be admonished by Transport Canada for unspecified safety reasons. The government and the airline both cite privacy reasons for not releasing just what the safety issue was or when it occurred, although guidelines specify that airlines have 30 days to comply with any warnings or they will lose their licence to fly in Canadian airspace. Whatever the problem was, then, it was sufficiently resolved, although this does raise the question of why the public is kept in the dark over the safety levels of the country's various airlines. Whatever. We suppose we can just drink our worries away the next time we fly Porter.