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Q: How do I get from Vancouver city centre to Vancouver airport?

Canada Line SkyTrain to Waterfront: CA$11.60 for one traveler, 27 min, boarding at Waterfront Station, a Canada Line train signed YVR–Airport. The first one leaves at 04:48 and is at the airport by about 05:15; the last at 01:08.

City to airport · One way · All prices are totals for 1 adult · All service hours

1 way to the airport

YVR publishes no be-there time: airline counters are on Departures Level 3. First departures

Recommended

The cheapest way to the airport. Nothing listed is quicker.

Canada Line SkyTrain to Waterfront

Canada Line · TransLink

27 min rideEvery 8 min04:48–01:08

Waterfront StationYVR

Non-stop

CA$11.60total for 1 adultCA$11.60 eachBuy ticketOn TransLink

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Waterfront Station, a Canada Line train signed YVR–Airport

CA$11.60 by contactless card or phone or a Compass Ticket: the two-zone CA$5.10 plus the CA$6.50 AddFare. After 18:30 on weekdays and all day at weekends, CA$10. A Compass Card with stored value pays CA$10.70, or CA$9.35 off-peak. Children 12 and under ride free.

Hours. Every day, 04:48 to 01:08. Board a train signed YVR–Airport; from one to Richmond–Brighouse, change at Bridgeport.

Price for every party size · Fare source

Fares are the same ticket ridden the other way; the boarding points, hours and, where a ride differs by direction, the ride time are read for this direction. Also runs to the airport, boarding point and hours in town not recorded yet: Welcome Pickups transfer to Vancouver, Kiwitaxi transfer to Vancouver. Every way from Vancouver airport into Vancouver

How do I get from Vancouver city centre to Vancouver airport?

For one traveler the Canada Line SkyTrain to Waterfront is the way we recommend: CA$11.60 in total, 27 min, boarding at Waterfront Station. The first one leaves at 04:48 and is at the airport by about 05:15; the last leaves at 01:08. YVR publishes no be-there time: airline counters are on Departures Level 3, and the airport asks you to check the suggested arrival time with your airline.

First departures

Earliest at the airport first

Canada Line SkyTrain to Waterfront

First 04:48 from Waterfront Station, at the airport by about 05:15.

Arrival times add the recorded ride time to the first departure; no walking or waiting is added.

Before you leave for Vancouver Airport

From the centre to each way out

How early to be there

YVR publishes no be-there time: airline counters are on Departures Level 3, and the airport asks you to check the suggested arrival time with your airline.

At the station

From Waterfront, take a Canada Line train signed YVR–Airport, 04:48 to 01:08, about 27 minutes; from a train to Richmond–Brighouse, change at Bridgeport. There is no AddFare toward the airport.

Taxis to the airport

Taxis to the airport run on the meter; the flat zone fares apply only from the airport, and from the Canada Place cruise terminal.

Questions

When is the first Canada Line SkyTrain to Waterfront from Waterfront Station?

04:48. It reaches the airport at about 05:15.

How early should I be at Vancouver airport?