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EVA Air to boost Vancouver-Taiwan service from June 2014

Beginning June 2014, Taiwanese airline EVA Air plans to add a fourth weekly flight on its Taipei Taoyuan-Vancouver route, using its Boeing 747-400 aircraft. Flights from Taipei will arrive in Vancouver at 7:40pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Departures from Vancouver leave at 2:20am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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YVR to welcome All Nippon Airways to Canada

It’s a new year, with 2014 marking the introduction of All Nippon Airways (ANA) new daily non-stop year-round service between YVR and Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND) on March 30, 2014. The new service marks ANA’s first flight to Canada. ANA’s new flight is expected to generate 356 jobs both at YVR and in B.C.’s hotels, […]

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JAL’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner on final approach to YVR

YVR ushered in the Year of the Dreamliner with Japan Airlines’ announcement that it will begin Boeing 787 operations on its daily non-stop service between YVR and Tokyo’s Narita Airport (NRT), beginning Monday, February 3, 2014. This inaugural will mark the first-ever scheduled arrival of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner to YVR. “Metro Vancouver’s community of […]

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Canada re-opens parent and grandparent immigration program

Over the first six months of 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) admitted 45,000 permanent residents to Canada in the Family Class (FC). This represented an increase of 40 per cent over the first six months of 2012. The increase has been attributed by CIC to a doubling of admissions in the Parent and Grandparent […]

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KLM Wannagives allows travellers to surprise family and friends

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is now providing a unique gifting service KLM Wannagives on its intercontinental and long distance European flights. With this service KLM allows people to surprise a travelling friend or family member with a present at an altitude of 9,000 metres. Via the webshop klm.com/wannagives, KLM offers a varied assortment of attentions: […]

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