Complete BS. Any multiterminal airport will have similar issues for those connecting between terminals. And as noted, the old transfer from one end of YVR to the other to get from domestic to transborder was hellish. BTW, another academic study that contends YYZ has the highest landing fees failed to note that aircraft do not pay gate or parking fees at YYZ, something that is charged at other airports. Also, for some reason they always use the 747 as the benchmark charge, yet almost nobody flies 747s into YYZ any more. And one of the comparison charts had LGA as another example of a lower cost for landing a 747. Of course, a 747 could never land at LGA because the runways are too short, and not strong enough to support this airplane! UBC has a very biased aviation economics group that has been misstating facts for three decades since Richard Stanbury started it.