YYJ Victoria

How deep the YYJ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YYJ. This reads the same 22 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 15of the 22 destinations are flown by one airline
• 13destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 22.7%of the destinations name WestJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YYJ

17 airlines appear on the YYJ board and they do not hold it evenly. WestJet is on 5 of the 22 destinations, 22.7 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 35.1 of the 49.6 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 Pacific Coastal Airlines on 4 destinations. 7 of the 17 airlines at YYJ 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.

No airline holds more than 22.7 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 15 of the 22 sectors at YYJ do not.

How much of the YYJ board is daily

Of the 22 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 13 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YYJ board is flown 4 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: YYJ to Victoria (YWH) 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 39.3 of the 49.6 departures a day, 79.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves YYJ is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abbotsford YXX	Canada	PBR	1	89	plan this
Denver BJC	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,745	plan this
Juneau JNU	the United States	TDY	1	1,304	plan this
Kalispell FCA	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	677	plan this
Oakland OAK	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,219	plan this
Seattle BFI	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	150	plan this
Tacoma TIW	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	166	plan this
Victoria YWH	Canada	LVW	1	25	plan this
Nanaimo YCD	Canada	PBR	3	56	plan this
Winnipeg YWG	Canada	WestJet	3	1,895	plan this

The ten destinations out of YYJ 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. 2 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YYJ

The desk holds the return direction for 9 of the 22 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into YYJ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Edmonton (YEG) at 3.9 out a day against 2.1 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of YYJ turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at YYJ

YYJ 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 YYJ, 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.

Where YYJ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Canada country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 1 airport pair page that start or end at YYJ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Victoria to Vancouver (YVR).

Three courier postings name YYJ as the airport a courier here flies from: Victoria, Nanaimo and Campbell River.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YYJ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 22 destinations above.