YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion

[Gordon]

Does anyone have any pier A\B connector construction updates?

[vanlaw]

Initial destinations from YVR - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Anchorage with winter service to Phoenix:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-rouge-details-roll-out-in-vancouver-calgary-1.2585529

[Gordon]

a 4th fight to Phoenix\day in the winter. Does yvr need that much capacity to phx?

[usog]

So, so happy I jumped ship to Alaska Air from Air Canada. Any updates on the Delta YVR-SEA flights? Haven't been able to book them yet it seems.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by Gordon

a 4th fight to Phoenix\day in the winter. Does yvr need that much capacity to phx?

Phoenix is a major hub for Southwest and US Airways. If you want to fly from Vancouver to much of southwest US you can do so transferring in Phoenix.

[nname]

Once US Airways leaves Star Alliance and joins Oneworld on April, there will be no Star Alliance service between Vancouver to Phoenix. It is reasonable for AC to fill in the gap and take the alliance passenger load.

Now both USAir and AA fly to Phoenix and they will be in the same alliance (and be the same company). If anyone going to pull out, I think it would probably be one of them.

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by nname

Once US Airways leaves Star Alliance and joins Oneworld on April, there will be no Star Alliance service between Vancouver to Phoenix. It is reasonable for AC to fill in the gap and take the alliance passenger load.

Now both USAir and AA fly to Phoenix and they will be in the same alliance (and be the same company). If anyone going to pull out, I think it would probably be one of them.

AA is just code sharing on US.

It really will depend on what the new AA does with PHX if that route is to stay or not.

[Gordon]

will the U S air flights to phx be
westjet codeshares codeshares when the US Air\ AA merger is completed?

AC will use A319s with 136 seats for the Rouge services.

[Johnny Aussie]

Well that certainly explains why all the E90s on the transborder flights were replaced with A319s.

That leaves EWR as the only AC mainline transborder route from YVR.

Certainly is a big boost in capacity though going from 93-seaters to 138-seaters plus the additional PHX flight for the winter scheds.

Just waiting to get the email re:sched change / seat change for an upcoming YVR-LAX flight. Fingers crossed they don't touch HNL-YVR before my next flight! I'm doing an NZ circle trip with stopover in HNL on the way to Canada.

[SFUVancouver]

YVR rated No. 1 airport in North America, ninth in the world

Vancouver Sun March 27, 2014 2:43 PM

Vancouver International Airport has been named the No. 1 airport in North America for the fifth consecutive year by Skytrax World Airport Awards.

YVR was again also rated one of the world's best airports, and was the only North American airport included in the global top 10.

In the top 10 best North American airports, Toronto's Pearson took fifth place and Halifax's Stanfield took seventh place, beating out New York's JFK airport.

The Skytrax ranking, known in the travel industry as the Passenger Choice Awards, are considered a global benchmark of airport excellence. Awards are based on millions of independent surveys of passengers. This year's awards compiled the results of 12.85 million surveys completed by customers of 110 different nationalities at 410 airports worldwide. Surveys measured the travel experience of 39 airport service categories, including arrivals and check-in, security and border clearance processes, along with shopping, service and dining options.

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Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/rated+airpor...h+world/9669635/story.html#ixzz2xCeXxwD0


Canada did very well in this year’s survey of travellers:

YVR came in 1st for North America, was the 9th place airport overall in the world, plus it was 1st globally in the 10-20 million passenger category, and 2nd place in North America for staff. The Fairmont Hotel at the YVR was the best airport hotel in North America.
Toronto came in 5th place in North America and 9th globally in the 30-40 million passenger category.
Halifax is the 7th best airport in North America, it took 3rd place globally in the under 5 million passenger airport category, and it took 3rd place in North America for the regional airports category.

Here is the link to the Skytrax Global Airport Awards category top 10 lists: http://www.worldairportawards.com/Awards_2014/Categories.htm

[connect2source]

Wow that's great for YVR!!!!

Having travelled extensively through Europe and Asia in the past couple of years I've always noted that YVR is exceptionally clean and spacious. It seems to have far more room than required for the just under 18M passengers / year it handles.

Strengths I've noted

Overall Maintenance and Upkeep :

Very clean and well maintained, just compare it to the relatively new T1 at YYZ, which is filthy, over-crowded, very worn, shabby and not well maintained for being just a few years old.

Retail :

Exceptional selection of duty-free shopping in the International Departures area, far more than any other Canadian Airport and on a par with the likes of second-tier European gateways such as Copenhagen, Brussels and Stockholm.

CATSA :

Relatively fast security clearance, even when there's crowds it always seems to move quickly.

Improvements and Expansion :

Constantly improving, in the past fives years we've gotten the link-building, Canada Line, C Pier extension and renovation and now the B Pier re-construction.

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Areas Needing Improvement

Dining Selection :

When compared to European of Asian Gateways, our selection is basically food court fare or chains like Milestones or White Spot. In European Airports, there are many innovative bar-restaurants featuring gourmet seafoods, brick-oven pizzas, there are sophisticated wine and champagne bars as well as amazing grab-and-go places like Pret-A-Manger. Most Canadian Airports could do with far more innovation in the food sector.

Domestic Baggage Claim :

Small, outdated, far too little space and capacity and luggage seems to take forever.

Overall, however, a great facility!

[Johnny Aussie]

Saw on twitter from airlineroute.net that Korean Air has commenced twice weekly B744F flights on a ICN-ANC-DFW-GDL-YVR-ICN routing.

Flights operating on Thursdays and Saturdays departs YVR at 1530. Confirmed the times on the Korean Air Cargo online schedules tool. Departs at 15:50 before daylight savings kicks in.

Korean Air source here ----> http://cargo.koreanair.com/eng/main_page.jsp then click on "2014 Summer schedule notice" down in the "News/Notice" section.

So this should be YVR's third dedicated Asian cargo carrier along with CX (currently 3x weekly) and CZ (currently 4x weekly)

[Johnny Aussie]

YVR twitter posted this regarding new YVR-HND flight on ANA for Sunday's launch....

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj2feWTCcAANyoV.jpg

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Saw on twitter from airlineroute.net that Korean Air has commenced twice weekly B744F flights on a ICN-DFW-GDL-YVR-ICN routing.

Flights operating on Thursdays and Saturdays departs YVR at 1530. Confirmed the times on the Korean Air Cargo online schedules tool. Departs at 15:50 before daylight savings kicks in.

Korean Air source here ----> http://cargo.koreanair.com/eng/main_page.jsp then click on "2014 Summer schedule notice" down in the "News/Notice" section.

So this should be YVR's third dedicated Asian cargo carrier along with CX (currently 3x weekly) and CZ (currently 4x weekly)

Another 747 for Vancouver!

[cyeg66]

Just saw this.
http://www.yvr.ca/en/about/facts-stats.aspx

Very nice growth figure again. 6.7% by my count (but then again, I'm a little stoopid sometimes )

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by cyeg66

Just saw this.
http://www.yvr.ca/en/about/facts-stats.aspx

Very nice growth figure again. 6.7% by my count (but then again, I'm a little stoopid sometimes )

Yup a solid result in all categories. And cargo stats looking great too. Really looking good all around.

[Johnny Aussie]

Just touched down on 08L.

Have had a mega avgeek morning.

Just spent the last half hour tracking NH116 on Flightradar24 and Live ATC.

Been a good week for YVR. Good traffic results for Feb, Korean Air Cargo launching twice weekly 74F freighters and now ANA has arrived.

[Denscity]

Sweet!!
Just wondering what the service difference is between ANA and JAL on a flight to Tokyo from Vancouver?

[Johnny Aussie]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Sweet!!
Just wondering what the service difference is between ANA and JAL on a flight to Tokyo from Vancouver?

Maybe you should try both and report on the comparisons.

Being a loyal *Alliance passenger good to have yet another option to get to Canada.

[casper]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Sweet!!
Just wondering what the service difference is between ANA and JAL on a flight to Tokyo from Vancouver?

I have been on of the regional ANA flights (Narita to Taipei) so its hard to generalize based on a single flight. However, that said, in flight service was excellent.