Vancouver Air Canada Transborder Maple Leaf Lounge.


Departed the house. Decided to use Aerocar Car service this morning to avoid having the car sitting outside for 3 weeks in airport parking in the fall Vancouver rain. There was frost on the ground for the first freeze of the year in Vancouver.



Arrived to YVR in under 1 hour to United States Departures. Super quiet check in today after the initial rush of early morning travelers. Seemed we were in between waves of flights. Almost like a private terminal but not quite.









Great art around the Vancouver International Airport. This is Bill Reid’s sculpture which is on the back of the Canadian $20 Bill.



Our original ticket had us travelling ORD-GRU-JNB as that's where I could find reward seat space. As a result, I asked for the bags to be short checked to GRU so that they could be wrapped in plastic film after we had gotten through TSA territory. I was hoping to avoid any pilferage from the bags. This move would turn out to be a major mistake as you will see when you read on.

Proceeded through security to the pleasant Vancouver Air Canada Transborder Maple Leaf Lounge. The usual breakfast offerings. Full of business travelers on the Monday morning trip.











Somehow the cereal silos look more appealing here than in the United Club’s.