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Amazing Airport loved the staff
Repurposed!
Hastings Field is no longer an active airstrip ... for fixed wing craft. There's a pretty shiny looking heliport there now though!
Home of the Vernon Flying Club
Home of the Vanderhoof Flying Club
Home of the Squamish Flying Club
Home of the Salmon Arm Flying Club
Home of the Qualicum Beach Flying Club
Home of the Penticton Flying Club
Home of the Pemberton Flying Club
Home of the Langley Aero Club
Home of the Kitimat Flying Club
Home of the Kootenay Flying Club
Home of the Kelowna Flying Club
Home to the Kamloops Flying Club
Home to the Elphinstone Aero Club
Home of the Duncan Flying Club
Home of the Alberni Flying Club
Home of the Aero Club of BC
Home of the Abbotsford Flying Club
Home of the Nanaimo Flying Club
Home of the Pacific Flying Club
My Experience
Very Nice Airport, Just The Taxis And Luggage Are Areas They NEED To Improve On
322573 Typo in field "municipality"
- Sarah Isalnd
+ Sarah Island
NDB 2J 250 kHz Decommissioned?
Last log of 2J Sep18 - not on Skyvector
Runway numbers
Just as an update, cyyj runway 13/31 has been changed to runway 14/32 as of 3 yrs ago
c 119 usaf flying box car feb 1960
i was the flight engineer on a c 119 we were based at niagara falls arb new york,,,we left feb 1960,,,about 2 hours from edmonton we had a engine fire,,we landed at beatton river air strip,,it was snow packed,,we spend about a week repairing the engine,,,we returned back to rcaf edmonton and did some more engine work,,after that we contined on to ladd afb alaska,,,,smgt william mcdougall mcd14131@comcast.net
Float plane from Vancouver to Harrison
Is it possible to fly by float plane from Vancouver to Harrison Hot Springs?
Tipella
PPR. May find obstructions on strip. Share'with road traffic, logging trucks etc.
Taxis
YVR taxi waits are ridiculous There are taxis waiting but they can’t gat them to the terminal. It’s complete chaos and incompetence
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P.S. The marker is a half mile north west of the actual airstrip.
Mule Creek
Mule Creek is a 4000X75 emergency grass strip. It is littered with gofer holes, but usable for bush planes. The Haines highway gets socked in quite a bit, so it is nice to have this option.
Luggage
Luggage retrieval is the absolutely worst of ANY airport in the world. We have waited over 40 minutes and still no luggage . In any other airport and I have travelled the world luggage is available within 20 minutes . In Winnipeg it was there by the time we arrived at the carousel. What is the problem in Vancouver. You are advertising good new things coming to YVR I suggest better faster baggage handling
Passport control
Coming back from abroad, standing in avery long line with over a hundred people ahead of me. The new system is very insufficient and slow. Multiple airport clerks walking around looking busy doing nothing. It feels like an international airport was not ready to receive multiple flights.
Tv subtitles in french
Don't get why all TV in westjet A-D is all in french..i. understand French is applicable.. but ALL tv's
re: re: Why no Uber or Lyft?
Your points are correct only to a degree - you exaggerate on every item presented. As one who uses taxis at YVR regularly, I have only once had a delay in the past year. I do agree that the airport could do with more taxis available especially with late evening arrivals.
Why no Uber or Lyft?
Lineups for taxis- but no taxis.....
Lots full of taxis- but none for patrons......
If you can get a cab, you are often refused a ride because “I don’t go there”.....
Why no Uber or Lyft? It might smarten up the rip off taxi companies.
Can’t you clean?
I’ve been through at least 40 airports, all over the world.
YVR has some of the nicest washrooms, but with the poorest cleaning. I’ve been through here multiple times, and rarely seen anything different. Urinals that haven’t been cleaned under since.... well... who knows when. Paper dispensers empty. Usually more than half. Garbage chutes overflowing. No soap in the fancy automatic dispensers. Unwashed floors.
I just used one that had been cleaned in the last half hour( so the paper says), and EVERY urinal had a dirty floor under it.
Where’s the quality control? Is there a manager actually checking?
Sheesh- can’t this beautiful airport do better?
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It’s also a afb
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This air strip still exists and is used by private planes, even though it's not official maintained.
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I have not found much information on this airport other than it seems to be an abandoned location sometime in the 1960s. The Smith River airport holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in British Columbia (recorded in 1947).
It's winter, you need to de-ice aircraft!
Man you kids are dropping the ball!
Who is incharge of this debacle called YVR?
3 hours into a 5 hour flight cause you clowns can't have enough de-icing equipment to service your airport!
My 5 hour flight is now going to be at least a 9 if not a 10 hour flight.
Get your act together and stop this amature hour.
Building of the runway.
I dont have a lot of information however just found out my grandfather ran the heavy duty cat to build the strip at war time. Is there any signs of the airstrip left. I would like to bring my teen to it for family history maybe in 2018.
Shuswap Regional Airport (YSN/CZAM)
How and why Salmon Arm's airport got two very different codes beats me considering how consistent Canadian codes are.
Chalk it up to being Salmon Arm, I guess.
Massage Chairs needed in all departure lounges
There are so many people that could benefit from using that easy boy style pay for use massage chairs not everyone has the time or the money to go to the spa was and people would really be able to benefit from this it's a no cost item the chairs pay for themselves if not make you a profit
Please in sure that these chairs are placed in all departure lounge is not just a long distance halls
Wrong iata code assigned
CITY NAME 3-LETTER CITY CODE AIRPORT NAME 3-LETTER AIRPORT CODE
Zhangye YZY Ganzhou YZY
YZY is for zhangye
OPEN TOO VISITORS??
I was wondering if visitors are welcome?
Taxi lineup and smoking area
I would like to suggest that YVR move the smoking area which is too close to the taxi line. Currently standing 20 deep (further to the previous comment) and it feels like we are breathing smoke directly from a cigarette. It isn't even windy. This is not acceptable.
Now to the lineup. How is it that there is a lot full of taxis and a lineup with NO cars in sight. This is a pattern that needs correcting.
Taxi's
The YVR department for controlling taxi cabs coming to pick up travelers at the airport should all be let go!
20 minute wait line! 60 people in line! No taxi cabs!
There are 300 to 400 taxi cabs in a holding area but no one is calling them.
World class airport with no taxi service.
Total BS
re: (no subject)
🔗 Mon, 22 May 2023
— @Bill35 at Mule Creek Airport, Canada
Marker has been moved.