Alaska Airlines Boeing 737

Taking off from Vancouver.

YVR Vancouver Airport Runways

Vancouver airport. Climbing out to the north then turning east over the city.

Air Canada Airbus

Decent shot of an Air Canada A319 taking off from wet runway in Vancouver.

Leaving YVR

Climbing out of Vancouver aboard an Embraer E75. Very impressive winglets on these aircraft. The Embraer guys who checked out Airplane-Blog after this post, will think I have something against these aircraft. I don't. In fact, as a passenger they are tremendously comfortable. However - it does seem the Embraer has reliability problems. The aircraft in this picture is not the Embraer we were supposed to be on - it was grounded for mechanical reasons in Edmonton - and this flight was an hour late. At the end of this flight the overhead bin a couple of rows up was finally opened with a lot of force - and a BMW key! Maybe just bad luck?

Vancouver Weather

Turbo Beaver landing out of the overcast at the Cole Harbour terminal in Vancouver. These guys are non-stop and not clear what weather, if any, stops them.

Air Canada Busy Day

On the Saturday morning 8am flight to Vancouver. Busy ramp outside the plane. YYZ still recovering from Thursday's storm. Long line-ups in Terminal 1 and many unhappy passengers. I feel for them, thankful I'm not them....and have to say the Saturday flight was as great.

Re the Embraer - like the one in the pic - my seat mate - who had good inside info on these things - was telling me how the Embraer is very unreliable. Not a pilot fave because it's unreliable. Interesting.

Olympic A-340

Olympic Air A-340 landing on 05.