--- iata: YYJ name: Victoria International Airport city: Victoria country: Canada lastUpdated: '2026-09-13' officialWebsite: 'https://yyj.ca/en/' sources: - 'https://yyj.ca/en/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/about-yyj/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/about-yyj/facts-and-stats/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/about-yyj/board-of-directors/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/2025-annual-report/' - >- https://yyj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1_Current_Total_Passengers_BySector_Stats.pdf - 'https://yyj.ca/en/flights-info/airlines-destinations/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/at-yyj/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/at-yyj/food/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/at-yyj/shopping/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/parking/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/parking-transportation/ground-transportation/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/travel-info/security/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/travel-info/holiday-travel-tips/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/travel-info/telus-wifi/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/travel-info/international-currency-exchange/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/connect-with-yyj/faq/' - 'https://yyj.ca/en/connect-with-yyj/contact/' - 'https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/airport/victoria-international-airport' - 'https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/ct-x-ray' - 'https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/verified-travellers' - 'https://www.bctransit.com/victoria/fares/' - 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_International_Airport' quickFacts: - >- Official passenger-statistics PDF: CY 2025 **1,986,057** vs 2024 **1,872,033**. The same PDF’s total-row leftover prints **6.2%**; 1,986,057 ÷ 1,872,033 is **6.09%**. Official 2025 Annual Report rounds the year as **approximately 1.99 million**, **6.1%** over 2024, busiest year since 2018, Canada’s **11th** busiest and **third** in British Columbia. Wikipedia reprints **1,986,057 / +6.1%** and leftover **10th** busiest — leftover vs the official About / annual-report **11th**. Same PDF 2023 **1,742,350**. Official 2026 monthly cells through July add to **1,128,578** (+2.4% vs the same window). August 2025 **227,613** is the printed record month (annual-report leftover “more than 227,000”). - >- Operator **Victoria Airport Authority** (not-for-profit, financially independent) since **1 April 1997**. Transport Canada still owns the land — Wikipedia leftover “Owner Transport Canada” is the lease, not the operator. Live President & CEO **Elizabeth M. Brown** (effective **18 September 2023**). Live executive leftover from the 2025 annual report: VP Revenue Strategy **Lindsay Gaunt**; VP Finance / CFO **Randy Bogle**; VP Human Resources and Indigenous Affairs **Michelle McInnis**; VP Planning and Infrastructure **Marc Turpin**; VP Operations **René Sheïr**. Live board Chair **Dave Cowen** (District of North Saanich); Vice-Chair **Kelly Bull-Tomer** (Town of Sidney). Other live cards: **Carol Brown**, **Erik Djukastein**, **Paul Gerrard**, **Allan Haynes**, **Catherine Holt**, **Patrick Kelly**, **Margaret Lucas**, **Paul Murray**, **Simon Philp**, **Sami Turki**, **Wendy Zink**. Admin **201-1640 Electra Blvd, Sidney, BC V8L 5V4**. Switchboard **250-953-7500**. Fax **250-953-7509**. Admin **8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.** Security Operations Centre **250-953-7511** (24/7). Airside ops **250-953-7536**. Media **Erin Brocklebank** / **media@yyj.ca** / **250-953-7514**. Accessibility **Accessibility@yyj.ca**. Historical Patricia Bay / RCAF Station Patricia Bay / “Pat Bay Airport” names are gone as passenger branding; IATA stays **YYJ**. **Do not create CYYJ as a second page.** **Do not merge YVR, YWH, YXX, or YLW.** 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron / Arundel Castle is a campus tenant — this is not an airbase page. - >- One civil terminal in North Saanich, official About **approximately 25 kilometres** north of Victoria. Official At-YYJ hours card: doors **03:00–01:00**; FAQ leftover **04:00 a.m.–01:00 a.m.** is leftover. Overnight stays are **not permitted**. Official FAQ clock **1.5 to 2 hours** domestic / **2 hours** transborder and international. Holiday-tips leftover **2+ hours** in season and **75 minutes** before departure for CATSA. **No passenger lounge.** Empty `lounges: []`. **Do not seed a placeholder lounge row.** **No U.S. preclearance.** Official AIF (fee schedule / 2024 press) **$25** on each eligible departing inter-provincial, transborder, or international ticket — intra-BC hops are not on that sentence; confirm the airline. - >- Live official destinations table (13 Sep 2026), nine airline cards and the printed route table: **Air Canada / Rouge, Air Canada Express, Air North, Alaska / Horizon, Flair, Harbour Air, Pacific Coastal, Porter, WestJet**. Printed dests: Air Canada **YVR 7–8× daily** / **YYZ 1–2× daily**; WestJet **YVR 3–4×** / **YLW 1×** / **YYC 4–5×** / **YEG 1–3×** plus seasonal winter **CUN 2× weekly** / **PVR 3×** / **SJD 1×**; Porter **YYZ 1× daily**; Harbour Air seasonal winter **YVR South Terminal 2–3× daily**; Pacific Coastal **YVR 1–3×** / **YXS 1×** / **YLW 1–2×** / **YKA 6× weekly (no Saturday)**; Air North **YVR / YXY 6× weekly**; Alaska **SEA 4–5× daily** (American codeshare). Flair is printed **seasonal – summer operations** with a **blank dest cell**. 2025 annual-report leftover still names **Kenmore Air** as a ninth 2025 carrier — **not** on the live table. Wikipedia leftover **YUL, YOW, YWG, Friday Harbor** is leftover. **Do not invent United, Delta, or a live Kenmore row.** - >- `lib/airports.json`: IATA **YYJ**, ICAO **CYYJ**, 48.647501, −123.427331, America/Vancouver. Wikipedia leftover timezone **MST** is wrong — Pacific. Wikipedia / AirNav elev **64 ft (20 m)**, **12 nm / 12 miles** NNW of Victoria. Wikipedia / AirNav runways **09/27 6,998×200**, **03/21 5,027 / 5,026×200**, **14/32 5,001×200**. Wikipedia leftover **11 gates** (3–4 and 12–13 jet bridges; 5–11 ground floor) matches the holiday-tips gate card. Official About leftover **nearly two million** passengers each year vs the 2025 PDF **1,986,057**. bentoTips: - label: Timing title: '1.5–2 hours domestic — doors 03:00, no overnight' detail: >- FAQ leftover still says 04:00 a.m. Overnight stays are not permitted. Holiday-tips leftover also prints 2+ hours in season and 75 minutes before departure for CATSA. CATSA’s YYJ wait tile exists (checkpoint PBS) and printed 10–15 min on one 13 Sep 2026 fetch and Not available on another — averageSecurityMinutes 12 is editorial unpublished. summary: >- Official FAQ clock is 1.5 to 2 hours domestic and 2 hours for transborder or international. The live At-YYJ hours card prints doors 03:00–01:00. category: timing - label: Layout title: One hall in Sidney — not YWH and not YVR detail: >- IATA is YYJ. Do not look for CYYJ, YWH (Inner Harbour seaplanes), YVR, or a 443 Squadron hall. Official pages do not print a live gate-to-airline map — read FIDS. No U.S. preclearance. summary: >- One civil building. Ground-floor gates 5–11; jet-bridge gates 3–4 and 12–13 upstairs past Harbour Walk. category: terminal - label: Food title: Eat after CATSA at Spinnakers unless you want Fickle Fig detail: >- Landside Tim Hortons 5:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. and Fickle Fig Farm Market weekdays 5:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. / weekends 6:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Holiday-tips leftover still clocks Spinnakers and Fresh Cup 05:00–20:00 and Harbour Walk until midnight — leftover vs the live shops cards. summary: >- Live official dining page — airside Spinnakers On the Fly 4:30 a.m.–10:30 p.m. or after the last departure; Fresh Cup at Gate 5 is a shorter coffee/bar window. category: food - label: Live checks title: Nine printed airline cards; no lounge; Long Term 2 is $18 / $9 detail: >- Live destinations table does not print Ottawa, Montréal, Winnipeg, or Friday Harbor. Long Term 1 has been $20/day with no long-stay discount since 2 July 2026. Short-term is $4 for two hours. Official ride-hail is Uber only. summary: >- Live official carriers are the nine names on the airlines page. Official pages have no club. Long Term 2 stays $18 for each of the first five days, then $9. category: status lounges: [] waterOptions: - kind: refill name: Official post-security hydration stations zone: airside summary: >- Official security page — dump drinks at the liquid-disposal sink just past the checkpoint entrance, then refill after screening. Official pages do not pin a station to a gate number. location: >- Official security and holiday-tips cards — water-bottle filling stations in the passenger departures lounge after CATSA terminal: Main Terminal isBestValue: true isBestQuality: true - kind: purchase name: Spinnakers On the Fly bottled water zone: airside price: posted register price summary: >- Named airside kitchen on the live dining page. Official pages do not print a bottle price. location: >- Official dining page — Spinnakers On the Fly post-security, daily 4:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. or after the last departure terminal: 'Departures lounge, airside' - kind: purchase name: Harbour Walk Shops bottled water zone: airside price: posted register price summary: >- Named airside shop. Duty-free is 30 minutes before boarding only. Holiday-tips leftover “open until midnight” is leftover. location: >- Official shopping page — Harbour Walk gift shop, newsstand and duty free past CATSA, 5:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. terminal: 'Departures lounge, airside' - kind: purchase name: Tim Hortons landside bottled water zone: landside price: posted register price summary: >- Landside purchase before screening. Official pages do not map a landside fountain to a landmark. location: >- Official dining page — Tim Hortons before CATSA, 5:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., SSP Canada 250-655-7277 terminal: 'Main Terminal, landside' airportistScore: 7.2 slug: yyj region: North America --- > Markdown for [/airports/yyj](/airports/yyj). Append `.md` to any page URL (or send `Accept: text/markdown`) for an agent-readable copy. - [HTML page](/airports/yyj) - [Lounge directory](/airports/yyj/lounges.md) - [Sitemap](/sitemap.md) # Victoria International Airport (YYJ) Victoria, Canada · North America Canada’s eleventh-busiest airport in one civil hall — NEXUS front-of-the-line, Spinnakers after CATSA, and $18 Long Term 2 parking, traded against no lounge, no rail, and a 25 km drive from downtown Victoria. ## Airportist Score **7.2 / 10** Weighted sum of the six published categories (no holistic fudge). - Ease of use (25%): 8.5 — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout. - Comfort & amenities (20%): 7.6 — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet. - Food & retail (15%): 7.6 — Food and retail quality and variety. - Ground access (15%): 7.2 — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city. - Reliability (15%): 7.6 — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience. - Lounges (10%): 2.0 — Worth-it density and access quality. ## At a glance - Passengers: 1,986,057 - Terminals: 1 - Typical security: 12 min - On-time: 76% - Disruption: minor ## Best for - Vancouver Island travellers who would otherwise ferry or fly via YVR - Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, Alaska, or Pacific Coastal connections from one building - Drivers who will use Long Term 2 at $18 / $9 or the $4 Short Term cell lot - NEXUS holders on CATSA’s Front-of-the-line Verified Traveller list ## Watch out for - No passenger lounge — aggregator Maple Leaf / Plaza Premium / Priority Pass / Escape YYJ is fiction - No U.S. preclearance and no CATSA CT lane — laptops and LAGs still come out - Live destinations table does not print Ottawa, Montréal, Winnipeg, or Friday Harbor — confirm FIDS - FAQ leftover still says doors 04:00; the live At-YYJ hours card is 03:00–01:00 and overnight stays are not permitted ## More intel - [Lounge directory](/airports/yyj/lounges.md) (free) - [Getting there](/airports/yyj/getting-there.md) (free) - [Amenities](/airports/yyj/amenities.md) - [Traveler tips](/airports/yyj/tips.md) - [Water](/airports/yyj/water.md) - [Full guide](/airports/yyj/guide.md) - [Disruptions](/airports/yyj/disruptions.md) - [Reviews](/airports/yyj/reviews.md) (free)