The sector is held by Air Canada.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DUB Dublin to YVR Vancouver
Dublin Airport, Ireland, to Vancouver International, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 7,165 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 08m
- Door to door
- 15h 53m
What DUB to YVR looks like
The DUB to YVR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dublin DUB to Vancouver YVR is a long haul sector of 7,165 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,165 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 08m.
Dublin DUB is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 462.1 departures a day. Vancouver YVR has 125 destinations and 409.9 departures a day.
Vancouver runs 7 hours behind of Dublin in January and 8 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DUB to YVR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUB to YVR | 0.71 | 5 | Air Canada |
| YVR to DUB | 0.57 | 4 | Air Canada |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Canada, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on DUB to YVR, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 9h 08m block time on DUB to YVR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DUB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DUB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DUB to YVR in the air, estimated | 548 min | 13h 38m |
| Formalities at YVR | 90 min | 15h 08m |
| Delivery run in Vancouver | 45 min | 15h 53m |
| Door to door | 953 min | 15h 53m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for DUB to YVR is 15h 53m.
A courier who leaves Dublin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vancouver at about 11:08 local and at the door by 13:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vancouver, the last useful departure from Dublin is around 13:37 local.
At 15h 53m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 32 of them join DUB to YVR.
| Connecting at | DUB to hub, flights a day | Hub to YVR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavik KEF | 1.43 | 0.86 | 7,183 | 10h 46m |
| Calgary YYC | 0.57 | 42.29 | 7,276 | 11h 12m |
| Seattle SEA | 1.14 | 19.71 | 7,488 | 11h 19m |
| London LHR | 20.57 | 3.43 | 8,028 | 12h 18m |
| Halifax YHZ | 0.57 | 1.71 | 8,580 | 12h 20m |
| Minneapolis MSP | 2.14 | 2.29 | 8,299 | 12h 25m |
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Reykjavik KEF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through KEF the routing covers 7,183 km against the 7,165 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 46m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Calgary YYC at 11h 12m and Seattle SEA at 11h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dublin, Belfast BFS is 137 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Vancouver, Victoria YYJ is 63 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through DUB or YVR. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Intel, LeixlipWafer fabrication in Europe. Ireland's fab, supplied from across Europe and the United States. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
- Pfizer, Ringaskiddy and Grange CastleActive ingredient and biologics manufacturing. Ireland manufactures for the world and ships against timepoints. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
- MSD, Carlow and BallydineBiologics and active ingredient manufacturing. The same Irish pattern. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
Plan Dublin to Vancouver yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for DUB to YVR in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The DUB airport entry
- The YVR airport entry
- Hand carry into Ireland
- Hand carry into Canada
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Dublin
- The written lane, Dubai to Dublin
- The written lane, Dublin to Boston
- The route calculator
More pairs through DUB and YVR: Dublin to London, Manchester to Dublin, Dublin to Amsterdam, Paris to Dublin, Barcelona to Dublin, Dublin to Frankfurt, Dublin to Madrid, Munich to Dublin.