Travel Reference
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Nanaimo is home to one of many regional airports on Vancouver Island.
Air Canada offers the most flights into Vancouver from the United States, but the city
is also served by most major U.S carriers.
International Airlines
In addition to Air Canada's daily London-Vancouver flight,
British Airways
(800/
247-9297,
www.britishairways.com
)
also flies this route daily.AirCanada flights between
Vancouver and continental Europe are routed through Toronto, but
KLM
(800/447-4747,
www.klm.com
)
has a daily nonstop flight to Vancouver from Amsterdam, and
Lufthansa
(800/563-5954,
www.lufthansa.com
) flies from Frankfurt and Munich.
Air New Zealand
(800/663-5494,
www.airnewzealand.com
) offers direct flights
between Vancouver and Auckland. This airline also has flights with stops throughout the
South Pacific, including Nadi.
Vancouver is the closest west coast gateway from Asia, being more than 1,200 kilo-
meters (750 miles) closer to Tokyo than to Los Angeles. The city is well served by
carriers fromacross the Pacific, inaddition toAirCanada'sAsian destinations. Vancouver
is served by
Air China
(800/685-0921,
www.airchina.com
)
from Beijing;
All Nippon
