Priority security lane at YVR?
 

Does AC have a priority security lane at YVR (domestic)? All I could see was the normal lane and then a 2nd for NEXUS.

Yes there is a priority security line at YVR. If you are in J, have SE, or E75,50,35 you will be given a green sticker on your BP at checkin. Then you can proceed to the security line with the Fastrack sign.

Speaking of which, what happened to the Nexus self-serve scanner there with the saloon-style plastic gates that would open after you scanned your card? Great piece of technology that cost who knows what, and then was yanked out and replaced by a grumpy CATSA agent who just blocks the entrance until you flash them your card. Progress!

I witnessed so many problems at that gate....they had no choice but to rip it out IMO.

What happens if you don't have NEXUS and are using an online boarding pass? Can you still use priority check in if you have Altitude status?

Yes. They see your status on the BP.

The line closes at 4pm so after that you're stuck with the normal line unless you have Nexus.

SO THAT'S WHAT THE STICKER IS FOR!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Overnighted at YVR once due to irrops, went to SE check-in the next morning (to the all-too-familiar-tune of "are you super elite?") and had no idea why they defaced my bp with a green sticker.

And I wasted like 20 extra minutes of my life queuing up with the kettles, oh the humanity :o :o :o

Oh the outrage! Did any of the kettles ask for your autograph? :D

IIRC, though, the line just dumps you to the front of the VBIT line (or maybe it's different at peak times?)

Why can't they close it at a later time...4 pm is too early for me.

The lane closes at 4pm?? I would file that under.....w t f?

Blame it on VAA stupidity?

To be clear to those who are new to YVR domestic FastTrack security lanes for AC status/J/Nexus travellers - the entry point is the same for all then the left lane is for NEXUS and the right lane for status/premium - but they all typically funnel back into the regular line at the mouth of the feeder lanes...

I now have more disdain for YVR security than YYZ security if you can believe it...

What's truly egregious is how much of a double-eew tee eff clusterf*ck is YVR's airside transborder transfer.

I don't mind the walk from the domestic gate to the MLL, to the info desk, make a left turn, walk to the end of the hall, show b/p, enter the hallway at the right, walk straight for a while, make a left past the Hanami restaurant that is always closed, and then making a right to the International MLL.

What I do mind is the absolutely lilliputian security screening checkpoint -- no matter whether one or all three (seriously, three?) lines are open, the screening is equally slow :mad: :mad: :mad:

Additionally, the utter lack of space completely prevents being able to split the security queue between regular travellers and :-: :-: priority :-: :-: pax like us. YUL and YYZ can do it, why can't YVR?

And yet YVR consistently ranks higher than those two airports in rankings. Shows how much credibility airport rankings are :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

....

Luckily I don't have nexus/GE yet, or else i'd also be adding a rant about how $#@ stupid it is that the airside part of CBP doesn't have any of the machines. Even YUL can do it ....

+1 Real frustrating!

Amen to that.

YVR domestic security sucks, but its transborder security (especially NEXUS) is worse. The NEXUS line is ALWAYS slower than the regular line, and the regular line is already SLOW.

YVR SECURITY = PATHETIC, INEPT, INCOMPETENT, AND INEFFICIENT

Security at YVR domestic on Dec 11 (about 10:00 am) was nearly empty; there were three pax (one ahead, me, one behind).

It was even better in YYC later the same day; about a dozen CATSA and only me in sight.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As I posted in another thread, the CATSA moron (whose first language was NOT English) insisted all of us in the YVR NEXUS Domestic line remove our shoes. Since this was not necessary at various Nexus TB lanes, we asked why. He said "that's the way we do it". Really.

They are idiots and there is no consistency with CATSA at any major airport I've been through.

Reminder to morons: TWO governments have done background checks on us, have iris scans and fingerprints. Do you find it useful to squeeze my 100ml tube of toothpaste? Really?

<end rant>

Between this comment and your GTAA = pathetic in your signature, I take it you really hate airports? (I don't blame you btw, being home twice a year and living on the road!) :D

I don't like how they've never had priority security lanes at the international-domestic security checkpoint either (at least during my connecting experiences). There are multiple lanes and scanners, but I've only ever seen 1, and maybe 2 lanes open. Glacial is the pace.

And on several occasions, that chokepoint - uh, checkpoint - has been closed when I've deplaned from a HKG/PEK flight forcing connecting passengers to go downstairs and go through the often crowded lines there.

YVR doesn't deserve any of Maradori's :-:s

I only hate some airports - most of them start with the letter "Y" in their IATA code. Others, for example and not shockingly, are LHR, FRA, and VIE (really, I had to go through two different security points to catch my connecting flight)

Yeah, YVR/VAA really need to do something about the NEXUS security lines. So d@mn pathetic and useless.

Sorry to bump an old thread and mods please feel free to move but….
Is there still a priority security screening lane at international departures at YVR? And if so, what are the chances of one pax on a different PNR getting the magic green sticker?

I applied a status pass to some friends’ PNR (4 passengers) for an international trip in a couple of weeks. Now another friend has joined them on the trip but is of course booked on a different pnr. None of them has any status or Nexus or has ever used a lounge so this is a real treat for them. What are the chances AC lets him tag along in the priority check in lane and also gives him a green sticker for the priority security lane? I can give him a lounge pass to join them in the MLL but I know they won’t leave him behind at security and will wait in the normal line with him so it will defeat the whole purpose of the status pass. Will AC let him join his friends at priority check in and also give him a green priority security sticker (if that is even how they still do it)?

Edit: I now see the Int’l MLL at YVR is closed! Well that just throws a wrench in the entire plan. But my question still stands.

Priority check in 100% fine. Priority security it's up to the person working pretty much, but might be okay too since there is 4 priority pax and it's the same flights just different PNR. But I would not expect priority security as technically it's a no. But I've seen them make exceptions like this plenty of times.

Thanks. So basically the only thing I have given them is priority check in. Big deal. They get free bags anyway and the lounge is closed. That sucks.

Technically, they would get priority standby if they needed too

They can still use the Domestic Maple Leaf Lounge. Not as nice as international. They should be given priority access into the domestic area and then cross over to international just before their flight.

Really? That would be great. One of the passengers is actually arriving on a domestic flight a few hours ahead so the rest could meet her in the domestic lounge. I didn’t know one could do that. Thank you!

Normally before COVID the only place you could do that was Calgary (since AC never leased the space set aside for their international lounge).

Since COVID they have been combining everything on the domestic side.

I swear I read something somewhat recently regarding priority security at YVR, but it doesn't seem to be in this thread... so just double checking... priority security at YVR C gates is back up and running now?
Do we still get the green stickers from priority checkin?

Got the Green Sticker this morning at Domestic counter :tu::tu:
Sent through the Nexus line at checkpoint :)

Domestic counter at YVR yesterday had the forethought to ask if I had Nexus, then because I did said I won't need a sticker.

In the early evenings, after the last transcon "dayliners" depart... YVR priority security would close down and only allow NEXUS through the fast lane. This was pre-Covid.
Is this still the case?

I seem to recall pre-covid that Nexus security at YVR closed at 6pm, at least on Sundays, but this might have been terminal D and not C.

Old days was like that, sorry I just noticed your question tonight after I got home.
I walked straight out of the glass doors and upstairs to the bridge to the Skytrain so didn't see the security lines from the outside..

Left around 2030 and you won't need to worry about Priority security then, every lane was quiet.

At YVR Dom security right now and it’s a zoo. No priority line, only Nexus. What’s going on at almost 9 PM?
Air Canada priority checking was completely overwhelmed, longest line I have ever seen there.

International flights clearing security through the C Pier?

23:15 AC314 Air Canada Montreal Main C49 On Time
23:25 AC128 Air Canada Toronto Main C47 On Time
23:25 DEC 700:25 AC25 Air Canada Shanghai Main D51 Delayed
23:50 AC44 Air Canada Delhi Main D70 On Time
00:10 00:30 AC7 Air Canada Hong Kong Main D50 Delayed

Was it as bad as this, this was Saturday 0700?
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...9003b1b991.jpg

Maybe they close the D gates checkpoints?
YVR-ICN-PVG, and YVR-ICN-HKG both leave at nighttime now!

I think a portion of the chaos at YVR the last few days is the relatively new requirement to upload vaccine certificates being horribly flawed (see post in other thread). If you can't get it to work online then option 2 is an agent at the airport. When I arrived at 7:35am Sunday morning the priority line was at least a dozen people deep, so I just opted for self bag tag + drop as I had about 5 minutes to cutoff. (Seems I cannot adapt to 1 hour cutoff for bags, I'm pre-programed for a 45min baggage cutoff.)