The Customs processing begins at 5 am and the morning can be busy how ever a 6 am departure may or may not avoid the busy period. CATSA is no war as irritating as the TSA at security. There is no silly secondary box in the middle that people have to go around or in it if you beep. The person who signals you to proceed through the WTMD is the person who wands you if the thing beeps. Shoes will only be sent through the X-ray if the hand held wand beeps over them. After security there is usally a person that is thereto direct passengers to the proper gates as there is 2 gate areas. the main one for jets and thesmaller area for the dash 8's and RJ planes known as "the barn"

If you want to purchase duty free you must purchase it before you go through customs.

If you travel with carry on's only you will get to go through secondary at customs. i travelled through yvr and I was sent to secondary because i only had a carry on. also after you go through the primary there is another person that you have to see to hand in your declaration card and that is the officer that may send you to secondary if you only have carry-on's

The AIF is included in the price of the ticket and there is no AIF booth anymore.

if you fly in to vancouver there are 3 diffrent lines at the primary customs checkpoint for Canada. The lines on the left are for Residents of Canada The line in the middle is for Flights arriving from The U.S.A. and the one on the right is for flights arriving from Overseas Residents would allways use the one on the left. They have this system in place to prevent peopke arriving from The USA from waiting forever at customs as the flight from Amsterdam and all the flights from Asia arrive at almost the same time. Could you imagine standing in that long line. A repersenitive from your cruise line will meet you at the airport if you arrive on the day of the cruise ship departure.