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YVR air traffic update: January – June 2017

Passenger numbers at YVR have demonstrated a successful first half of the year with continued growth across all major sectors, including a record-breaking spike in travellers from the Latin American market. More than 418,000 passengers from Latin America have travelled through YVR in the first six months of 2017, a 25.2 per cent year-over-year increase. […]

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Delta, Air France-KLM, Virgin Atlantic to launch combined joint venture

Delta Air Lines is deepening its longstanding and industry-leading partnership with Air France-KLM Group with a 375-million-euro (approximately $559-million) investment to acquire 10 per cent equity in the joint venture partner and a seat on the Air France-KLM Group Board of Directors. Additionally, Delta, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic will launch a combined long-term joint […]

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WestJet to launch Huatulco, Mexico service

Starting October 29, 2017, WestJet will launch a seasonal weekly service between YVR and Bahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX), Mexico.This new route will also include increased service from YVR to Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray, Alberta; Fort St. John, B.C.; Cabo San Lucas, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The YVR-HUX route will be operated […]

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Canadian coalition of lawyers and advocates staff airports to ensure immigrants with valid visas can get to the U.S.

The Canadian Cross-Border Legal Coalition has deployed volunteer lawyers and advocates to major airports across Canada to ensure that anyone with valid documentation is not banned from travel to the United States because of the January 27, 2017 U.S. executive order, halting travel from seven countries. A federal judge in Washington state temporarily halted the […]

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San Francisco celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love

Long stamped a literary bohemia and attracting nonconformists like the Beat Generation writers of the Fifties to musicians and artists and social rebels in the mid-to-late Sixties, it was logical that free-thinking San Francisco would give birth to a radical new movement eventually embraced by the rest of the world. In 1967, nearly 100,000 free-spirited […]

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