{"id":219222,"date":"2025-05-18T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-notworthy-facts-vancouver-international-airport-history\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:00:16","slug":"5-noteworthy-facts-about-vancouver-international-airports-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=219222","title":{"rendered":"5 Noteworthy Facts About Vancouver International Airport&#8217;s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261146\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vancouver-international-airport\/\"  >Vancouver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (YVR) is one of Canada&#8217;s busiest international airports and the gateway to the country&#8217;s west. The airport offers a range of domestic, trans-border, short-haul, and long-haul international flights, and it is straddled on Vancouver proper&#8217;s outskirts and the neighbouring city of Abbotsford. Furthermore, the facility is only 29 miles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ideal-us-airports-for-canadians-list\/\" >Peace Arch Border Crossing<\/a>, making this airport a useful alternative for Americans who live near the Canadian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the airport is the second busiest in Canada and offers more international flights to Asia due to a historic incentive program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,713,408,5238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-canada","category-history","category-vancouver-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219223,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions\/219223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}