
The Canadian Transportation Agency reported a total of 6,395 complaints from late December to mid-January. March break comes just two and half months after many British Columbia travellers were forced to change their Christmas plans after cancelled flights swept the country, which resulted in thousands of complaints. Rolling delays are when an airplane gets small delays at each station, and by the end of the day, it rolls up to an hour or two hours, but we've been fortunate to date," said Elchitz. "When the weather is good like this, we don't see what we call rolling delays. He predicts traffic will pick up once kids are out of school and is hopeful the weather will be mild to accommodate the demand. "We've seen a lot of inbound traffic from Ontario that we've been able to facilitate well," said Philip Elchitz, the senior manager of YLW.Įlchitz says over the past few days, about 8,000 people have come and gone from the airport. Parts of the Okanagan have yet to kick off their spring break, but Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is still seeing a steady flow of departures and arrivals. On Tuesday, for example, YVR had just eight out of around 575 flights remain on the ground.

Over the last few days, the airport had limited cancellations. families have been jumping on flights to sunny destinations, such as Hawaii, Los Angeles and resorts in Mexico.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has seen over 50,000 people per day since the last school bell rang on Friday afternoon. Spring break is underway in parts of British Columbia, and airports are feeling the effects.
