YVR Vancouver

How deep the YVR board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YVR. This reads the same 125 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 68of the 125 destinations are flown by one airline
• 46destinations run less than once a day
• 28destinations have four or more departures a day
• 48.8%of the destinations name Air Canada, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YVR

71 airlines appear on the YVR board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Canada is on 61 of the 125 destinations, 48.8 per cent of them, and on 17 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 313 of the 409.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is WestJet on 28 destinations. 45 of the 71 airlines at YVR appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 61 of the 125 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a YVR sector is usually another Air Canada aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at YVR than the destination count does.

How much of the YVR board is daily

Of the 125 destinations, 79 are flown at least once a day and 46 are not, 11 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YVR board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: YVR to West Palm Beach (PBI) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 137.1 of the 409.9 departures a day, 33.5 per cent of the whole board. The other 120 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at YVR usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abbotsford YXX	Canada	AZAL Avia Cargo	1	63	plan this
Albany ALB	the United States	Flexjet	1	3,813	plan this
Denver APA	the United States	Chartright Air	1	1,800	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	Jet Concierge Club	1	7,583	plan this
Ibiza Town IBZ	Spain	International Jet Management	1	8,813	plan this
Milwaukee MKE	the United States	Air Canada	1	2,782	plan this
Montreal YMX	Canada	Morningstar Air Express	1	3,651	plan this
Morristown MMU	the United States	Flexjet	1	3,875	plan this
Shenzhen SZX	China	Hainan Airlines	1	10,244	the pair page
Tampa TPA	the United States	TIV	1	4,174	plan this

The ten destinations out of YVR where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 27 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YVR

The desk holds the return direction for 68 of the 125 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into YVR runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Edmonton (YEG) at 24.9 out a day against 15.7 back and Charlotte (CLT) at 1.4 out a day against 1 back.

It runs the other way as well: San Diego (SAN) files 3.9 a day back into YVR against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at YVR

YVR keeps America/Vancouver time, eleven hours behind Dubai in summer and twelve hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 22:00 at YVR, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at YVR

9 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YVR that lands inside it leaves around 03:47, on a modelled block of 10h 13m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YVR that lands inside it leaves around 21:28, on a modelled block of 9h 32m. Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YVR that lands inside it leaves around 14:27, on a modelled block of 15h 33m. Those three departure times out of YVR are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where YVR turns up on the rest of this site

YVR carries two other pages on this site as well: the Canada country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the YVR transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at YVR, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Vancouver to Calgary (YYC), Vancouver to Toronto (YYZ) and Vancouver to Edmonton (YEG).

Five of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Vancouver, Hong Kong to Vancouver and Shanghai to Vancouver. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at YVR written out.

Four courier postings name YVR as the airport a courier here flies from: Vancouver, Surrey and Abbotsford.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YVR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 125 destinations above.