Robert Deluce

Robert J. Deluce (1950 (age 66–67)) is a Canadian airline executive. He is the president and CEO of regional airline Porter Airlines, and has been a past airline executive with Air Ontario and other airlines.

Deluce was born as one of nine children to Stanley Matthew Deluce (1923-2010) and Angela Deluce in Chapleau, Ontario and raised in White River, Ontario.

His father served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War and in 1951 formed White River Air Service to fly summer tourists to Lake Superior.

Robert was a pilot with White River and maintains a commercial pilot's license.

The family next bought Austin Airways in 1971, then Air Ontario and Superior Airways in 1981. The Deluce family sold 75% of Air Ontario and Austin Airways to Air Canada in 1986.

Born to an aviation family, Deluce became a pilot in his teens and moved to Toronto to attend St. Michael's College School. He went to McGill University graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then returned to the White River area and worked in the family's airline business.

Married to Catherine, the Deluces have four children. Son Michael is an executive with Porter. Daughter Justine is a real estate broker. Son Jason works in IT management.

His niece Lindsey Deluce is the weekday morning News Anchor for the new CTV network ' Your Morning ' program, which started up in early June 2016, after being the News Anchor for CP24 Breakfast and morning news weekdays. Lindsey joined CP24 in June 2009, as a Remote Host and Anchor.

In 2006, Deluce graduated with a post graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Seneca College at York University and was the recipient of an award for best overall radio and television newscaster.

The Deluce family has over 50 years of experience in the airline business with White River Air Services, norOntair, Austin Airways, Air Creebec, Air Ontario, Air Manitoba, Air Alliance and Canada 3000 Airlines.

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