Vancouver International Airport
Link bulding in Vancouver International Airport Photo by JamesZ_Flickr Creative CommonsVancouver International Airport (IATA Code: YVR) is located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, about 12 km (7.5 miles) from Vancouver. It was the second busiest airport in Canada (behind Toronto Pearson International Airport) in 2008. The airport has won several "best airport" awards, and retains the distinction of "Best Canadian Airport" in the regional results.
Vancouver International Airport's interior features extensive collections of Pacific Northwest Coast Native art. The airport uses a great deal of carpet and vast expanses of glass to let in large amounts of natural light. Arriving passengers come down escalators leading to a platform across a large waterfall.
Airlines using Vancouver Airport include:
- Air Canada
- Air Canada Jazz
- Air Georgian
- Air Transat
- American Airlines
- American Eagle Airlines
- CanJet
- Continental Connection operated by Colgan Air
- Continental Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines
- Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines
- Northwest Airlines
- Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines
- Northwest Airlink operated by Mesaba Airlines
- Sunwing Airlines
- United Express operated by Shuttle America
- US Airways Express operated by Air Wisconsin
- US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines
- WestJet
- Aeroméxico
- Air Algérie
- Air France
- Air Saint-Pierre
- British Airways
- Corsairfly
- Cubana de Aviación
- EgyptAir
- KLM
- Lufthansa
- Mexicana de Aviación
- Olympic Airlines
- Primera Air
- Royal Air Maroc
- Royal Jordanian
- SATA International
- Skyservice
- Sunwing Airlines
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Thomas Cook Airlines
- Transaero Airlines
- WestJet
This information is sourced from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_airport):
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