Re: [84attendees] YVR Checkin Counter Opening Hours (for US)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 11:57 AM -0700 8/4/12, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

>  The place was really packed around 4:30 this morning. Huge lines, not
>  very effective processes and so on. I think we (IETF folks) all made
>  our flights at 6am, but not with much time to spare, and this is
>  speaking as someone who could go through various priority lanes, use
>  Global Entry and so on.
>
>  Lesson: The 6am flights are probably not the best choice, have never
>  seen the aiport that busy, but I've also never left this early zzzzz.

At 7:09 PM +0000 8/4/12, Ralf Weber wrote:

>  My flight is in a couple of minutes, but I arrived at 09:30 at the 
> airport and it took me nearly two hours to get to the gate area. 
> The airport was very packed as well, so this may be common here at 
> YVR. The baggage drop process IMHO really sucks, that line alone 
> was probably responsible for nearly half of the wait. I didn't see 
> much priorty lines other than checkin (can't use Global entry as I 
> am not an US citizen).

I had a 12:44 PM flight.  I meant to leave the hotel between 11:00 
and 11:10, but didn't actually leave until 11:35.  It took less than 
20 minutes to get to the airport.  Having my BP and no luggage to 
check, I skipped the checked baggage queues and headed to security. 
The line for those with NEXUS and GE was empty, so that took maybe 90 
seconds.  After the GE kiosk, I had to wait 4 minutes while the lone 
agent dedicated to GE/NEXUS/Diplomatic/Wheelchair handled a couple 
where one was in a wheelchair.

Hotel to gate roughly 30 minutes (although I walked rather fast to my gate).

On previous visits to Vancouver, the security and customs/immigration 
queues took well over an hour.  I'll be there again in two weeks, 
leaving on a Sunday evening, so will see what that's like.

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Randall Gellens
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