Airport Codes that Make Sense

[Glacier]

Some transport Canada ID codes make sense. Others are just wrong.

The Best:
BBC (Bella Bella)

The Good:
YWL (Williams Lake)
YKA (Kamloops)
YVR (Vancouver)
YPR (Prince Rupert)
WPR (Princeton)
YCG (Castlegar)
YDL (Dease Lake)
WLY (Lytton)
WPU (Puntzi Mountain)
XTL (Tatlayoko Lake)
ZST (Stewart)

The Bad:
YXJ (Fort St. John)
YXT (Terrace)
YXC (Cranbrook)
YQZ (Quesnel)
VBD (Bella Coola)
WPL (Powell River)
YLW (Kelowna)

The Ugly:
YXX (Abbotsford)
YYJ (Victoria)
YCD (Nanaimo)
YXS (Prince George)
YYE (Fort Nelson)
WYY (Osoyoos)
YZT (Port Hardy)
WKF (Lillooet)
YYD (Smithers)
YQQ (Comox)
YZP (Sandspit)

[gman313]

I also noted this when I worked at KF. I was pretty good I had them all memorized now I only know the keys ones

My pet peeve though is when someone says, I'm driving to YVR. no you are not, you are driving to Vancouver, haha. You can only fly to YVR

[Jx3]

Glacier, you can add ZBB to your "The Best" list and I guess YBL to your "The Bad" list. You have YPL (incorrectly identified as Powell River) on the bad list when it should be on "the best" or at very least "the good" (YPL is Pickle Lake). YPW is Powell River and I always thought it made good sense.


And gman, don't know what you're going on about. You can drive to YVR, I've done it countless times as well as YQQ, YOD and YTR. I currently drive to YLW 5 days a week.

[OKkayak]

I'm driving to YVR. no you are not, you are driving to Vancouver, haha.

Actually, you'd be driving to Richmond as YVR is not in Vancouver City Limits.

You can only fly to YVR

Nope, you can take the bus there, SkyTrain, bike, walk, job, crawl. You can even take your car there and even park it.