YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion

[CareerShow]

Originally Posted by Large Cat

In my opinion this parking lot is hugely overkill and an unfortunate waste of the nice marshland by Templeton that has always brought a lot of birds. Like, it's seriously a HUGE amount of parking space, an unbelievable, Tsawwassen Mills level amount. They would have better spent their money giving people free Skytrain rides after purchasing something at the mall.

I also think they should have built the MacArthur Glen parking lot on the other side of the mall (closer to the Arthur Laing) so that the mall entrance could be closer to Templeton Station. Tourists are getting hella confused trying to find out how to walk there, even with the signs. I've helped several people every time I've gone there.

I think the parking is a good use of land. Firstly it can be used for parking for the mall and possibly the airport. The parking can also be used by commuters who don't want to be stuck driving into downtown Vancouver as the lot is very close to the sky train station.

[moosejaw]

Is parking free at the mall? Is it possible to leave your car there for the day and take the Skytrain to the terminal? Perhaps for same day travel?

[stiffdeadman]

BLI hurting big time with the weak CAD.

BLI passenger numbers down 14.5% YTD and down 30.6% in June alone.

https://www.biv.com/article/2015/7/low-canadian-dollar-hits-bellingham-airport-passen/


not surprised passenger numbers are down with frontier pulling out, and alaska mainline discontinuing all flights until november. they're supposed to restart one vegas and one hawaii flight at that time, but who knows if they will and how long they will last as the dollar is supposed to get even worse when the US Fed Bank raises interest rates in september. hopefully that lower parking rate in the A lot is in effect soon. i'm flying to san diego labor day weekend so it would be nice to have the cheaper rate.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by stiffdeadman

BLI hurting big time with the weak CAD.

BLI passenger numbers down 14.5% YTD and down 30.6% in June alone.

https://www.biv.com/article/2015/7/low-canadian-dollar-hits-bellingham-airport-passen/


not surprised passenger numbers are down with frontier pulling out, and alaska mainline discontinuing all flights until november. ......... i'm flying to san diego labor day weekend so it would be nice to have the cheaper rate.

Graphic evidence of the dependency of BLI on the Canadian market. To get any of the Seattle market share, they'd be having to be offering some pretty good deals. Are they?
SEA and YVR will always be the major airports of the NW. YVR I'm sure will gradually evolve into that transit hub, and SEA will do whatever it's going to do, both as Delta Asia hub
and now with the presence of EK, perhaps a different airline / destination profile. But I don't think BLI can ever be a whole lot much more than the "Luton Airport" of the PNW.

[rxp]

when Compass goes online, There will be a $5 dollar surcharge added on, which is quite ridiculous...

Source: Buzzer Blog from Translink

[casper]

Originally Posted by rxp

when Compass goes online, There will be a $5 dollar surcharge added on, which is quite ridiculous...

Source: Buzzer Blog from Translink

Silly move.

[Johnny Aussie]

http://airlineroute.net/2015/07/29/zx-hawaii-feb16/

From mid Feb to the end of the winter season (late April)...

AC increasing Hawaii to a three daily operation.

YVR-HNL from 7 to 9 weekly
YVR-OGG from 7 to 10 weekly
YVR-KOA from 1 to 2 weekly

Effectively rouge is adding a daily morning service to Hawaii (spread across the three destinations) in addition to the twin departures in the late afternoon.

That's almost 2,000 additional seats per week to Hawaii.

Along with Westjet, this will bring total YVR-Hawaii services to 62 flights per week. About 9 flights per day.

With the above... Plus... Aeromexico's new daily service, AC re-launching CUN, WS launching MCO, plus all of Sunwing and Air Transat's new offerings... there will be plenty of additional sun-seeker seats being offered from YVR this winter.

[Zassk]

Originally Posted by CareerShow

I think the parking is a good use of land. Firstly it can be used for parking for the mall and possibly the airport. The parking can also be used by commuters who don't want to be stuck driving into downtown Vancouver as the lot is very close to the sky train station.

I think this new lot is for airport employees or something, not the mall. The airport has mentioned its goal of moving employee parking down the Canada Line to the outer stations like this (and, eventually, to a location at an off-island station).

[Johnny Aussie]

Whilst you were sleeping...

Are you all sitting down...

Daily BA A380 LHR-YVR effective 1 May 2016

http://airlineroute.net/2015/07/29/ba-yvr-s16update2/

This is HUGE news!

All the speculation as to who would be the first A380 service to YVR... BA is the winner.

And they are maintaing the 12 weekly summer schedule

I just knew something more had to happen for BA to drop from 12 weekly 744s to 12 weekly 772s.

So there you have it...

BA087 LHR1240 – 1400YVR 772 x23
BA085 LHR1715 – 1840YVR 388 D

BA086 YVR1755 – 1115+1LHR 772 x23
BA084 YVR2050 – 1400+1LHR 388 D

Capacity will now be greater than this summer. That's quite a lot of premium seats to fill though!

[Hourglass]

Originally Posted by Johnny Aussie

Whilst you were sleeping...

Are you all sitting down...

Daily BA A380 LHR-YVR effective 1 May 2016

http://airlineroute.net/2015/07/29/ba-yvr-s16update2/

This is HUGE news!

All the speculation as to who would be the first A380 service to YVR... BA is the winner.

And they are maintaing the 12 weekly summer schedule

I just knew something more had to happen for BA to drop from 12 weekly 744s to 12 weekly 772s.

So there you have it...

BA087 LHR1240 – 1400YVR 772 x23
BA085 LHR1715 – 1840YVR 388 D

BA086 YVR1755 – 1115+1LHR 772 x23
BA084 YVR2050 – 1400+1LHR 388 D

Capacity will now be greater than this summer. That's quite a lot of premium seats to fill though!

To say I'm gobsmacked by this news would be an understatement... Wow!

Flown on BA's A380 a number of times, and it's definitely an upgrade on their B744s

[trofirhen]

So now, YVR will join YYZ and YUL as the only airports in Canada with A380 service. Cool.... ( Your turn will come, Calgary .......)
A small confusion on my part, though. Does this mean the other flight is deleted, so it's ONCE per day, or still twice daily in the week with a 777? Clarifications please?

[Canadian74]

Airlineroute now saying the 5 weekly 777 service is dropped. Only 7 weekly A380.

[Canadian74]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

So now, YVR will join YYZ and YUL as the only airports in Canada with A380 service. Cool.... ( Your turn will come, Calgary .......)
A small confusion on my part, though. Does this mean the other flight is deleted, so it's ONCE per day, or still twice daily in the week with a 777? Clarifications please?

I don't think YUL gets the A380 now. And YYZ is only 3 weekly.

[Klazu]

Haha, seems that I "called it" in June after which deasine confirmed it. Now for the latter part and seeing a LH fly a 747-8 in here.

Originally Posted by Klazu

Considering that BA has during summer two daily flights, would it possible for them to consider going in the future for a daily summer A380, rather than twice a day 777W? I think BA is our only hope for seeing a A380 ever and Lufthansa for 747-8 (nice video find, Leftcoaster!).

Originally Posted by deasine

There's word an A380 will be making scheduled visits by British Airways coming next April. If any airline will fly an A380, I think BA is probably the most fitting as it already has 747s, occasionally at more than daily frequencies.

I just love how YVR is constantly surprising every one of us with its performance! It is crazy how much attention our small regional airport is getting from the world's largest airlines.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Canadian74

I don't think YUL gets the A380 now. And YYZ is only 3 weekly.

I thought Air France had (and has) 380 service YUL-CDG. This is the eighth largest air market out of Paris.
Also, doesn't YYZ have Emirates 3x a week, and Etihad 3x a week, using 380s? That would make six for Toronto. Hey, I'm not arguing, just asking.

[connect2source]

I'll be switching my allegiance to One World because of this as my Aeroplan option is the HD AC 77W sardine can. I hope AC responds to this by removing their torture device from YVR-LHR.

[Denscity]

[Vin]

Nice to know Big Bird is finally landing in Vancouver, congratulations YVR!
However, we still need to wait till next spring.

Taken the Singapore Airlines A380 4 years ago for a flight to Melbourne , and it was amazing seeing the huge crowd of passengers at the waiting lounge of the Terminal preparing to board the giant.

More from Vancitybuzz:
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/07/british-airways-to-fly-airbus-a380-for-vancouver-service/

[Canadian74]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

I thought Air France had (and has) 380 service YUL-CDG. This is the eighth largest air market out of Paris.
Also, doesn't YYZ have Emirates 3x a week, and Etihad 3x a week, using 380s? That would make six for Toronto. Hey, I'm not arguing, just asking.

I think Air France stopped flying the A380 to YUL quite a while ago. Currently it's a mix of A340/777

And only Emirates is using the A380 to YYZ at 3 weekly, Etihad is a 777-300ER

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Canadian74

I think Air France stopped flying the A380 to YUL quite a while ago. Currently it's a mix of A340/777

And only Emirates is using the A380 to YYZ at 3 weekly, Etihad is a 777-300ER

So in other words Vancouver will be a leading Canadian A380 destination. Not bad!

"Surprisingly" nobody on the Canada forum is recognizing this news.