Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
A very small sample but have neighbours/friends who travel down to Costa Rica from the YYJ vicinity regularly (one set has property, the other family. Both have taken to flying via YYZ and avoiding a U.S. transit this year (have usually transited through the U.S. prior), though one set also considers the additional vet expenses a U.S. transit incurs there days.
That sounds like a painful detour but at the very least, it looks like WS started a once weekly YVR - LIR route on a seasonal basis.
https://news.yvr.ca/westjet-launches...december-2025/