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May 3, 2010 | 6:46 pm

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bevvy5

Join Date: Dec 2002

Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Canada

Posts: 244

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Originally Posted by BearX220

Presuming you live in BC, if BLI is 20 minutes from your house, YVR can't be more than 30. Why not just fly SEA-YVR rather than hang around SEA for hours? It's only a 90-minute drive from SEA to BLI anyway...

I can answer this one. It's for the same reason we always "cross the line" from the Fraser Valley to fly from BLI or SEA. Taxes on travel in, out or within Canada make it desirable to fly from "the States."

The only time we fly from Vancouver is if we're using FF miles.

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