YVR accelerates expansion on soaring passenger count that hit 24.1 million in 2017

The passenger count at Vancouver International Airport broke through 24 million in 2017 prompting the facility to speed up some of its capital projects and rewrite its projections for growth.
Riding a boom in tourism that has seen an increasing number of new airlines and existing airlines, particularly Air Canada which has turned YVR into a full trans-Pacific hub for its operations YVR saw passenger numbers rise by 8.4 per cent in 2017 compared with 2016.
“That’s 1.9 million more pas