Alaska Airlines
Economy Class (Q)
YVR-SEA (Vancouver International Airport – SeaTac Airport)
AS 2239
Oct 8, 2017
Booked: Bombardier Q400
Flown: Bombardier Q400-Next Gen
Departure: 7:17 PM
Arrival: 8:26 PM

Since the fare was departing Mexico City, we needed to position to take advantage of the discounted fare. We decided on using an Alaska Airlines Companion Fare to position to Mexico City. Unfortunately, as with many other Alaska runs from Vancouver, we had several connections and a forced stop over in either SEA or SFO. We opted for SFO on this ticket.

We left the house at 4:00 PM. We self drove to MrsWT73’s company’s parking lot at the airport. MrsWT73’s has changed jobs since the last trip report and now has a parking lot available walking distance from the airport (she’s in aerospace). We self hauled the luggage up to the terminal. More importantly, it was a beautiful afternoon leaving YVR.



We were lacking in food creativity ideas today so we opted for the Jetside Bar Lounge at the Globe at YVR at Fairmont Vancouver Airport hotel (in terminal) for the dinner tonight. We had beautiful seats at the windows tonight with big loungers.











I had a beef burger and fries. Mrs WT73 had a turkey sandwich with salad. It was super satisfying and it certainly filled us up for our trip down to SFO.



We headed down to gate E96 via the Duty Free after a leisurely and empty security check and Global Entry examination. It was much quieter at US TransBorder Pre-Clearance in the late evening compared to the usual morning crush to get through here.



There is nothing down in the E90 – 99 gates other than a sorry news stand and a tired coffee area. The lack of windows here makes this place pretty depressing.







The plane was late coming in so we didn’t board until about 7:40 PM.

There was the usual 2-2 configuration with an odd brown Horizon Air interior tonight. Purely functional with nothing much else.





Then we had a long 15 minute taxi over to runway 26L at Vancouver which is right on the other side of the airport. Four medium full stops on the taxi ride over. I didn’t think we were ever going to get out of here tonight.

No beverage service or any service at all on the short 26 minute flight to SEA-TAC; as per usual. It’s always a pretty quick process getting down to Seattle.

A straight in descent arriving at Gate 16C. We were out on the apron quickly into the nice fall evening.