YVR Airport & Sea Island Developments Discussion - Page 519

zahav · #**10361** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 7:03 AM**

YVR has posted their September stats, and growth has increased from the rates seen in July and August! That's insane since those months were already unbelievable growth. Overall traffic for Sep increased 12.2% (it was 11% in July and almost 10% in August). Domestic qa up 8.9%, Transborder finally showing some great #s again, up 13.1%. Asia Pacific up 17.4%, Europe up 18.1%, and Misc. up 30.8%. Unreal! The thing that is even more notable is in each sector, September's year over year increase was greater than the YTD, meaning September had much faster growth than the year as a whole (which was already been high!). To have all 4 "international" sectors (Transborder, Europe, Asia, and Misc.) all posting growth over 13%?! I havent seent that before! What a roll YVR has been on this year!

http://www.yvr.ca/en/about-yvr/facts-and-stats

excel · #**10362** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 7:13 AM**

Wow those are crazy numbers.

LeftCoaster · #**10363** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 5:38 PM**

Wow, I have been pretty vocal about the big growth I was expecting at YVR this year and this is smashing even my wildest expectations.

I expected August to be big but for growth to slow in September but it's ramping up even more! Europe is blowing me away, as is transborder. Domestic near 10 is just nuts. This isn't just AsiaPac growth this is across the board.

At this rate YVR's claims of hitting 21 million seem totally absurd. At this point we would need a significant slow down to not flat out blow past 22 million, skipping 21 entirely. In order to hit 22 million we would need to take our growth rate DOWN from 12.2% this month and 9.2% on the year to an average of 5.4% for all of Oct/Nov/Dec.

Johnny Aussie · #**10364** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Wow, I have been pretty vocal about the big growth I was expecting at YVR this year and this is smashing even my wildest expectations.

I expected August to be big but for growth to slow in September but it's ramping up even more! Europe is blowing me away, as is transborder. Domestic near 10 is just nuts. This isn't just AsiaPac growth this is across the board.

At this rate YVR's claims of hitting 21 million seem totally absurd. At this point we would need a significant slow down to not flat out blow past 22 million, skipping 21 entirely. In order to hit 22 million we would need to take our growth rate DOWN from 12.2% this month and 9.2% on the year to an average of 5.4% for all of Oct/Nov/Dec.

Fingers crossed! Channeling 22 Million 22 Million. I'll do my best in December to add to Transborder.

Sept 2016 is up over 212,000 pax from 2015. Holy Toledo!

LeftCoaster · #**10365** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 5:57 PM**

Here they are in the format we usually post them in. Thanks for Zahav for the first post.

Overall up 12.2% an increase of 212,089 over September 2015

Domestic up 8.9%
Transborder up 13.1%
Asia Pacific up 17.4%
Europe up 18.1%
Misc Int'l up 30.8%

Ttl Int'l up 18.1%

Once again just blow away by these numbers. YVR up nearly 1.5 million on the year.

SFUVancouver · #**10366** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 6:23 PM**

Wow! Those are stellar numbers.

Thanks for the heads up that they've been posted.

Looking forward to deafening silence in the Canada thread, just like with the 'best airport in the world' award. My grapes, they're so sour!

Gordon · #**10367** Posted **Nov 1, 2016, 6:47 PM**

Those are amazing numbers. That puts us just under 22m for the year.

any one heard any news on the work being done on pier A

Hourglass · #**10368** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Gordon

Those are amazing numbers. That puts us just under 22m for the year.

any one heard any news on the work being done on pier A

Actually, if the growth rate of 9.2% is maintained for the rest of the year, YVR cracks 22m.

Think they need to dust off those terminal expansion plans quickly; another year of growth like this, and we're close to 24m passengers, not far off the stated annual capacity of 25m passengers.

mezzanine · #**10369** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 7:56 PM**

Found this interesting. No new YVR expansion announcements until the end of the year/start of the new year, I think at least until consultations are finished. One priority? the NS taxiway.

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For example, a north-south taxiway that would serve as a shortcut for planes moving between terminals would be the first of its kind [?], built for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It was actually planned well before the Vancouver 2012 Olympics [

], but only now is it emerging in public discourse. “It’s professional guessing!” said the Vancouver Airport Authority president and CEO Craig Richmond, though he reckons that the taxiway could become a reality within eight years. Of course, notes his YVR 2037 colleague, aviation industry advisor Heather Bell, “nothing’s simple in aviation!” The new taxiway would make life simpler for many pilots but more complicated for a few, she says, depending on who ends up pulling into which gate. Still, the environmental gains were considered compelling enough to prioritize the new taxiway.

SpongeG · #**10370** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 8:06 PM**

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SpongeG · #**10371** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 8:19 PM**

i never even heard of this happening

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excel · #**10372** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 10:01 PM**

That's a pretty cool idea.

Van23H · #**10373** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 10:09 PM**

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet but over the course of the last 6 months the international terminal retail area has seen major renovations. Separate stores for Bottega Veneta, Cartier, Bulgari, Omega, Salvatore Ferragamo have joined Burberry and Hermes. In addition a Gucci boutique opened this month. Previously they did have some of these brands but they were just counters vs. storefronts. YVR by far has the most luxury retailers than any other airport in North America.

excel · #**10374** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 10:26 PM**

I think that's a little ridiculous. It would be nice to have more variety financially speaking.

SFUVancouver · #**10375** Posted **Nov 2, 2016, 11:17 PM**

Some further breakdown of the YVR September 2016 & Year to Date 2016 numbers. Considering how much of a monster 2015 was, posting double-digit year-over-year growth in pretty much every international category is impressive.

Total Passengers (Domestic, Transborder, and International) | September 2016 – 1,957,451 [up 12.2% from September 2015]
Total Passengers (Domestic, Transborder, and International) | Year to Date 2016 – 17,040,647 [up 9.2% from Year to Date 2015]

Domestic | September 2016 – 968,997 [up 8.9% from September 2015]
Domestic | Year to Date 2016 – 8,448,308 [up 7.5% from Year to Date 2015]

Total International (incl. Transborder) | September 2016 – 925,912 [up 16% from September 2015]
Total International (incl. Transborder) | Year to Date 2016 – 8,592,339 [up 10.8% from Year to Date 2015]

Transborder | September 2016 – 459,163 [up 13.2% from September 2015]
Transborder | Year to Date 2016 – 4,212,953 [up 6% from Year to Date 2015]

International – Asia Pacific | September 2016 – 311,307 [up 17.4% from September 2015]
International – Asia Pacific | Year to Date 2016 – 2,666,699 [up 14.5% from Year to Date 2015]

International – Europe | September 2016 – 147,931 [up 23.9% from September 2015]
International – Europe | Year to Date 2016 – 1,058,083 [up 18.2% from Year to Date 2015]

[edit: I skipped Miscellaneous International, so the numbers of Transborder, Asia, and Europe do not add up to the Total International.]

SpongeG · #**10376** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 6:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Van23H

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet but over the course of the last 6 months the international terminal retail area has seen major renovations. Separate stores for Bottega Veneta, Cartier, Bulgari, Omega, Salvatore Ferragamo have joined Burberry and Hermes. In addition a Gucci boutique opened this month. Previously they did have some of these brands but they were just counters vs. storefronts. YVR by far has the most luxury retailers than any other airport in North America.

i was walking through the domestic terminal the other day, air canada side and read some of the paper permitson the boarded up fronts, one was for brooks brothers, one was lole, sunglass hut and i didn't read any others

zahav · #**10377** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 7:58 AM**

They are doing another duty free expansion by D53 and will add new restaurants and lounges on newly created floors above, I will try and post some plans and rendering when I have them! Always good to add more retail and food options!

vanlaw · #**10378** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 4:20 PM**

Does anyone know which version of the 787-8 JAL uses on YVR-NRT? There are two versions, one with what I would call "regular" economy seats (31" pitch and 17.5" width) and another with their new "spacious economy", which probably rivals a lot of premium economy products with 33" pitch and 18.9" seat width

https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Japan_Airlines/Japan_Airlines_787-800_B.php

I've tried to a dummy booking on both Expedia and JAL but couldn't get to seat selection without entering passport info etc. There are some great fares for spring travel to Japan on all of JAL, AC and ANA at the moment, under $900.

thanks.

excel · #**10379** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 7:31 PM**

When I flew in January of 2015 it was the regular economy I believe but may have changed.

vanlaw · #**10380** Posted **Nov 3, 2016, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by excel

When I flew in January of 2015 it was the regular economy I believe but may have changed.

Thanks - I would assume that as well given v2 only has 88 economy seats vs 144 in v1. At least it's still 2-4-2 and not 3-3-3 most have gone to.