Direct Entry Captain - Dash 8-400
Q400 · Porter pilot bases (not named) · apply on flyporter.com
Listed on Porter's standing pilot recruitment page; posting based at one of four pilot bases.
Pay & conditions · North America
Porter Airlines: pilot jobs, pay and conditions
Canada · Low-cost · PD / POE
Hiring status unknown
Recruits first officers for the Q400 (1,000 hours) and E195-E2 (1,500 hours).
Pay
Unofficial figures. Not from an agreement or the airline: collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Treat them as indicative.
First officer
CAD 69,852–145,368 a year
about $50–104k a year
Captain
CAD 112,325–281,297 a year
about $80–201k a year
Estimated annual ranges (Aviation A2Z, Oct 2026) on 77.5 hr/month guarantee; no hourly scale published. First ALPA CBA in progress.
Open vacancies (3)
Direct Entry Captain - Embraer E2
E195-E2 · Porter pilot bases (not named) · apply on flyporter.com
Listed on Porter's standing pilot recruitment page.
First Officer - Embraer E2
E195-E2 · Porter pilot bases (not named) · apply on flyporter.com
Listed on Porter's standing pilot recruitment page.
Conditions
- Allowances
- Not confirmed.
- Roster
- 77.5 hr monthly guarantee basis.
- Bases
- YTZ, YYZ, YOW, YUL, YVR
- Fleet
- Dash 8-400, E195-E2
- Benefits
- Retirement savings plan, medical, travel.
- Union
- ALPA
- Careers site
- flyporter.com ↗
Requirements
- First officer
- 1,000 hours minimum
- Type rating
- unknown
- Licence
- Transport Canada licence; ATPL or IATRA/SAMRA+SARON
- Other
- Right to work in Canada; passport
Sources
Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026
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