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[thundergun]

This will be a huge upgrade to the area - looking forward to it!

[Bingo]

I like the "jail" feature. Will the facility provide for conjugal visits?

[spanky123]

Yup, they're on top of their game for sure.

 

They offer good service for sure but for me they have priced themselves out of the market with an average $400+ return fare. Unless you live/work right downtown and are visiting a downtown Vancouver office, it is about 1/2 the price and only 15-20 minutes longer to go through YYJ. If you are visiting anything outside of the YVR core then the YYJ trip is likely faster as well.

Edited by spanky123, 22 October 2015 - 06:49 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ They offer good seat sales starting Wednesday night, or Thursday every week.  And that's simply because all government travel is usually booked by that time of the week.  They can't advertise lower prices to Joe traveller than they do to government, so that's how they do it.

 

This is me looking up Vancouver flights this Saturday, right now, very good considering there is a Canucks/BlackHawks game this Saturday too, why not fly?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harbour Air buys Salt Spring Air, floating terminal taking shape

 

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.ahBbj4Yg.dpuf

[VicHockeyFan]

TONIGHT at 11:59pm, you can buy a set of FOUR Harbour Air Seaplanes​ tickets, for only $140.  That's just $35 each!  They never expire and can be transferred to others.

 

MORE:   http://www.harbourai...kets-are-back!/

[VicHockeyFan]

 

TONIGHT at 11:59pm, you can buy a set of FOUR Harbour Air Seaplanes​ tickets, for only $140.  That's just $35 each!  They never expire and can be transferred to others.

 

MORE:   http://www.harbourai...kets-are-back!/

 

 

The 1,000 tickets went in 6 minutes.  $140,000 will pay for a great Christmas party for HA workers!

[Bingo]

The 1,000 tickets went in 6 minutes.  $140,000 will pay for a great Christmas party for HA workers!

 

I suppose the scalpers will make a tidy profit.

[LJ]

VicHockeyFan, on 27 Nov 2015 - 08:51 AM, said:

The 1,000 tickets went in 6 minutes.  $140,000 will pay for a great Christmas party for HA workers!

Harbour Air puts on some of the best parties going. At YVR they empty out their main hanger and it's free food, drink, music, heck even bull riding. Fun times.

[Mike K.]

I hate to pay for music at Christmas parties 

[Bingo]

I hate to pay for music at Christmas parties 

 

And the Christmas music has been playing in the stores since Frankenstein stole my Halloween candies.

[Bingo]

If the the weather co-operates, Harbour Air will deliver its new floating terminal to the Inner Harbour today.

The two-storey, 5,200-square-foot building, with a distinctive wavy roof, is being brought in by barge and tug between 3 and 5 p.m., said Harbour Air vice-president, Randy Wright.

The floating terminal will eventually be part of a new public plaza on the existing terminal site.

Victoria Float Plane Terminal Ltd., a group that includes Harbour Air and Kenmore Air, has agreed to a 20-year lease with the City of Victoria that will see the terminal move from city land to the city’s water lots in front of 950 and 1000 Wharf St., adjacent to Ship Point and the lower Wharf Street parking lots.

“I think it will be the catalyst to start the David Foster Pathway where those buildings were,” Wright said.

The waterfront pathway will go from Ogden Point to Rock Bay when complete.

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.rT2AaqbT.dpuf

 

 

 

[Bingo]

The David Foster Pathway all the way to a viewing platform at a possible sewage treatment plant? Yuk!

[VicHockeyFan]

Weather looks good for that arrival today.

 

This is quite a story:

 

 

Slow plane to China: B.C.’s Harbour Air eyes massive market

 

In a Chinese province you’ve never heard of, in a city with more people than you thought possible, a Canadian CEO is sitting down with Communist Party officials to a dinner of stewed offal, chicken’s feet and fermented “stinky” tofu that the CEO says smells (and tastes) like “a horse’s barn.” He is doing so with a short, bespectacled Chinese billionaire who has bought half of the man’s Vancouver-based company in an unlikely alliance that may soon see float planes buzzing along the Yangtze.

But before that can happen, the rice wine comes out of a back room, carried by an elegant waitress in the employ of the local Party office. Dressed in a sedate black outfit, she flits around the enormous round table filling up each guest’s tiny, personal glass jug with throat-searing Chinese rice wine, known as baijiu, or “white alcohol.” The toasts are about to begin, and they are not the day’s first: The billionaire has already been forced to take an early-afternoon nap, after pounding back baijiu at lunch.

 

 

http://www.theglobea...rticle28399597/

[VicHockeyFan]

This morning.

 

 

I guess if it wasn't for tires, there would be a whole industry around boat and float bumpers.

[Bingo]

I guess if it wasn't for tires, there would be a whole industry around boat and float bumpers.

 

Boaters never use black tires against a white hull. Tires are used between floats and barges.

[VicHockeyFan]

The terminal has been spotted near Pender Island.

 

http://kevinlightpho...7/tug-terminal/

[amor de cosmos]

edit: never mind it was built at an undisclosed location near bamberton. i guess there was a need for security considering what it will be used for.

Edited by amor de cosmos, 27 February 2016 - 11:47 AM.

[Bingo]

The float is heading for the south end of Trial Island going very slow. I hope they make it to Ogden Point before the flood tide begins.

[VicHockeyFan]

The new Harbour Air Seaplanes terminal off Oak Bay moments ago...

The two-storey, 5,200-square-foot building, with a distinctive wavy roof, is being brought in by barge and tug between 3 and 5 p.m., said Harbour Air vice-president, Randy Wright

Photo by C-Tow Victoria / C-Tow Sidney

[VicHockeyFan]

I gotta admit, it's nice and all, but not all too inspiring with choice of colours and materials.  Hopefully they can add some hanging baskets etc. and spice it up a bit.

 

Or some real creative signage.  Which it appears is yet to come.