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B.C. Ferries sailings, YVR flights cancelled due to snow

Check with your airline if you had planned to travel today or tomorrow.

An airplane is de-iced in this handout photo from YVR. A winter storm has prompted dozens of flight cancellations at the Vancouver airport.
An airplane is de-iced in this handout photo from YVR. A winter storm has prompted dozens of flight cancellations at the Vancouver airport. Photo by ERIC PETERSON /PNG

Dozens of flights out of Vancouver airport and all major B.C. Ferries sailings were cancelled on Tuesday afternoon as snow started falling across the Lower Mainland.

B.C. Ferries said it expects to cancel all sailings from 3 p.m. Tuesday between the mainland and Vancouver Island, including those between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay in Victoria, Tsawwassen and Duke Point near Nanaimo, and Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay in Nanaimo.

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YVR’s departures list showed dozens of cancelled flights for Air Canada, Westjet and other airlines as snow began to accumulate Tuesday afternoon. Check with your airline if you had planned to travel today or tomorrow.

Follow this story for the latest on the snow storm.

  1. File photo from Jan. 6, 2022, when snow blanketed Burnaby and other parts of Metro Vancouver.

    Snow hits Metro Vancouver: Latest forecast, closures, cancellations

  2. A woman bundled up for the cold weather walks up a snow-covered street after 21 centimetres of snow fell overnight, in Vancouver, on Thursday, December 30, 2021.

    Snowstorm forecast to bring 20 cm or more to parts of Metro Vancouver