Tamara Vrooman: 'A change due to the pandemic, but also, frankly, to geopolitical factors, we don't have that Chinese traffic.'
The Vancouver International Airport has seen a rebound in airline passengers since the pandemic was declared in 2020 but reduced international travel — particularly from China — is preventing the airport from eclipsing its best traffic year of 2019.
“For domestic [flights], we’re actually higher on many days than we were pre-pandemic,” Vrooman told Glacier Media Wednesday after delivering an update to Vancouver city council on the airport. “Since there's been a change due to the pandemic, but also, frankly, to geopolitical factors, we don't have that Chinese traffic, we don't have those carriers, and I don't think we're going to have that traffic back [for some time],” she said.
The pandemic also had an effect on cargo delivered by plane, with YVR data showing 304,078 tonnes of cargo moved in 2019 compared to 240,895 in 2020, 273,049 in 2021 and 302,573 to end 2022.
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