Routes host city Vancouver is already Canada’s main Pacific gateway, but can it step up its share of traffic from the larger US-Asian market?

Thanks to geography, Vancouver will always be Canada’s gateway to the Pacific. But its role as a hub between the USA and Asia is a more elusive goal that Vancouver International airport is still striving to earn.

Two things are likely to boost Vancouver’s gateway status. The first is China, the second is better interline deals. As Canada’s third largest city and the only one on the Pacific coast, Vancouver has always had a large Asian population. That population grew even more when many Hong Kong residents took out Canadian citizenship before Hong Kong’s handover to China.

John Korenic, Vancouver’s director of aviation marketing, says his airport is already the fourth-largest origin-and-destination point between North America and Asia, and that includes such behemoths as Los Angeles.

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