Edvard
29-07-2017, 14:15
We have more direct mainland Chinese flights than any other airport in North America or Europe, says YVR CEO Craig Richmond.
To put that in perspective, our relatively small, 23 million passenger-per-year airport has more Chinese flights than Heathrow, JFK, Los Angeles or San Francisco.
With its huge Chinese population base, Vancouver is at the forefront of connecting to China, which is set to become the largest air travel market on the planet by 2030.
YVR is easily within the range of the workhorse twin-aisle Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s that are in the fleets of many Asian carriers. And the newest generation of airliners, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350, are being used by these airlines to establish new "long and thin" routes -- with long distances, but lower passenger demand -- like those from the second- and third-tier Chinese cities to Vancouver.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/vancouver-china-aviation-hub/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport#Airlines_and_desti nations
To put that in perspective, our relatively small, 23 million passenger-per-year airport has more Chinese flights than Heathrow, JFK, Los Angeles or San Francisco.
With its huge Chinese population base, Vancouver is at the forefront of connecting to China, which is set to become the largest air travel market on the planet by 2030.
YVR is easily within the range of the workhorse twin-aisle Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s that are in the fleets of many Asian carriers. And the newest generation of airliners, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350, are being used by these airlines to establish new "long and thin" routes -- with long distances, but lower passenger demand -- like those from the second- and third-tier Chinese cities to Vancouver.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/vancouver-china-aviation-hub/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport#Airlines_and_desti nations