Vancouver International Airport (YVR)

Description: Vancouver International Airport (IATA: YVR, ICAO: CYVR) is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, ... more

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) ... about 15 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. It is the second busiest airport in Canada, behind Toronto Pearson International Airport, with non-stop flights daily to Asia, Europe, Oceania (starting in November 2007), the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and other airports within Canada. In 2006, Vancouver International, saw 16.9 million passengers and 332,307 movements. It is an Air Canada hub as well as a focus city for WestJet. The Vancouver International Airport is one of eight Canadian Airports that have U.S. border preclearance facilities.

Newest Review: ... the annoyance of the couple behind us a brief conversation about “Nanaimo” our destination, and the fact that that this particular officer actually knew my aunt and uncle.(Any way I digress).As before the directions were easy and clear so it was very easy for us to find our way to the Bus that takes you across the airport the 5 min journey to the South Terminal where were booked in ... more

... courteously and efficiently. As we were making a connecting flight we found that our luggage had automatically been collected and taken to the south terminal to be boarded onto our internal flight (We were very impressed with this) - This left us time to try an...more

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Vancouver International Airport (YVR): Vancouver International airport (856 words)
by - written on 01/11/05 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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We arrived at Vancouver international airport on a flight from London Heathrow. I am afraid to say that upon arrival we had a connecting flight to make to Vancouver Island (Via float plane) so I did not have chance to take much in as it was bit of a rush due to out flight being an hour late arriving. However saying that the initial impressions were favourable. It has been several years since I had actually flown into Vancouver and I was impressed by the improvements that had been made. Much effort seems to have gone into bringing the airport out of the 80’s style time warp it had been. Lots of money has been spent on melding the 21st century with native Indian ... Read the complete review

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