Vancouver Airport Services

Vancouver Airport Services
Founded Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1994 (1994))
Headquarters Vancouver International Airport
Number of locations 13 airports
Area served

British Columbia - Cranbrook; Fort St. John; Kamloops Ontario - Hamilton
New Brunswick - Moncton
Caribbean - Nassau, Bahamas; Montego Bay, Jamaica
South America - Santiago, Chile
United Kingdom - Liverpool; Doncaster; Durham

Middle East - Cyprus
Key people George H. Casey
President and CEO
Services Airport authority
Parent Vancouver Airport Authority
Subsidiaries North Peace Airport Services Limited
Tradeport International Corporation
Kamloops Airport Limited
Website http://www.yvras.com

Vancouver Airport Services (YVRAS) is an airport management company with 13[1] airports worldwide. It is a subsidiary of the Vancouver Airport Authority[2] which manages Vancouver International Airport.

In 1994 Transport Canada transferred operations of the Vancouver International Airport to the Vancouver Airport Authority.

Expansion beyond YVR

YVRAS was part of a consortium that was going to privatize Midway Airport in Chicago. In April 2009 the deal fell through.[3]

Beyond YVR, YVRAS provides management services to various airports owned by YVRAS or via a consortium:

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.yvras.com/ Vancouver Airport Services website
  2. ^ http://www.yvr.ca/authority/whoweare/subsidiaries.asp Subsidiary of the Vancouver Airport Authority
  3. ^ Midway Airport deal falls apart: Consortium can't borrow cash needed to finance deal - Chicago Tribune - April 21, 2009
  4. ^ Toronto Star, "B.C. firm linked to airport", Bruce Campion-Smith & Tonda MacCharles, 21 April 2009 (accessed 25 April 2009)
  5. ^ Toronto Star, "Workers 'followed procedures' in allowing hijacker on plane", Andrew Chung, 22 April 2009 (accessed 25 April 2009)