Attention: Airport Employees
Spring Warehouse Sale
Thursday, April 24th 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
APRIL 2008
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS
A new Link at YVR
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passengers travelling through YVR, and
British Columbia’s rich culture and
features international check-in capacity
heritage.
for more than 500 travellers per hour,
Underscoring YVR’s theme of Land,
baggage facilities, and office space for
Sea and Sky, the building’s atrium area
some 100 Airport Authority employees.
also houses a water feature. And if
Once operations on the Canada Line
you look up, way up, you can watch
begin in late 2009, the Link will also serve
the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights,
as the main point of entry for passengers
depicted by coloured lights playing on a
disembarking at the rapid transit line’s
series of curved glass ceiling panels.
final airport station. Passengers will
Construction of the 2,800 square-
enter the Link via a covered overhead
metre Link Building began in May
walkway for fast and convenient check-
2005. The project has already received
in after a short 26-minute ride from
industry accolades, including an award
downtown Vancouver.
for Best Steel Construction in British
The interior of the Link Building
Columbia in 2007 from the Canadian
he newest addition to YVR’s
features original Northwest Coast
facilities is the Link Building,
Native art including Celebrating
When fully operational later this year,
which connects the Domestic and
Flight, a 10-metre totem pole, and
the Link’s additional capacity will help
International terminals. Standing five
Moon Mask, a stunning circular
ensure a wrinkle-free travel experience
storeys tall, the Link Building features
piece that overlooks the building’s
for the more than 17-million passengers
a unique oval-shaped glass and steel
central atrium. Both original works
expected in 2008, and the many visitors
exterior.
were created by Northwest Coast
to YVR when Vancouver welcomes the
artist Don Yeomans and highlight
world in 2010.
The Link is a central hub for
YVR People
George Agnew Green Coat Volunteer
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eorge Agnew has been involved with YVR for
East Concourse (Underneath the Fairmont Vancouver Airport)
Institute of Steel Construction.
(ABOVE) The 10-metre totem pole, Celebrating Flight, points upward to the Aurora Borealis, depicted by coloured lights on a series of curved glass ceiling panels. (LEFT) So named because it links the International and Domestic terminals, the $117-million Link Building provides increased international check-in capacity, passenger screening, additional baggage systems and office space.
CTA overturns Air Canada’s ban on small pets on passenger aircraft
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he Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has disallowed Air Canada’s ban on animals and their kennels weighing less than 31.7 kilograms as checked baggage on domestic
and international flights.
the last 41 years. A long-standing employee of Air Canada, he
In its decision, the Agency, an independent quasi-judicial
retired in 1999 only to return to the airport a year later
tribunal that regulates various modes of transportation under
to work with the Airport Authority
Government of Canada jurisdiction, found that Air Canada’s ban
and eventually with Princess Cruises.
on pets was unreasonable.
See PETS page 3
Today, he can be found patrolling the arrivals area of the International and Domestic terminals providing a helping hand to passengers and
Business Watch Program launched at YVR
identifiable green vests and jackets. The program
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of Canada recently launched Business
neighbours—in
consists of more than 200 volunteers, who in 2007
Watch, a new crime prevention program
airport
contributed more than 39,000 volunteer hours.
at YVR.
together on crime prevention.
visitors as one of YVR’s many Green
ancouver
Coat Volunteers. Green Coats are YVR’s award-winning volunteer customer care ambassadors, named for their easily
Richmond
Airport RCMP
Authority,
Similar to the Neighbourhood
Crime
Block Watch program, Business
Prevention Unit and the Bank
Designed to detect and prevent crime,
George has been spreading West Coast hospitality
Watch is designed to encourage this
case,
retailers—to
work
Richmond RCMP, Bank of Canada
Business Watch allows retail tenants to notify
helps travellers find their way through the terminals,
fellow retailers of any suspicious activity in the
provides information on services at the airport, and
airport. Retailers complete an incident checklist and
four security information-awareness sessions about
informs travellers of the wonders of British Columbia
submit the information to YVR Airport Operations
Business Watch with airport retailers. More than
and the Vancouver region. When asked why he does it,
team, which then immediately distributes the
80 retail employees attended the seminars, which
the answer is simple: “I just like helping people.”
information to all airport businesses via a fax blast.
focused on long-term crime prevention strategies.
See YVR PEOPLE page 3
and the Airport Authority conducted
Airport retailers also now prominently display a
Business Watch is just one component of the
Business Watch sticker in their store, as a deterrent
airport’s overall plan to ensure the safety and
to possible criminal activity.
President’s Corner
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YVR Public Meeting
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To launch the program, the
at YVR as a Green Coat for the last five years. He
For George, the dynamic environment of the airport
inside:
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