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YVR announces airport authority layoffs

By Hannah Scott, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Published 4:57 PDT, Wed April 29, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to dramatically impact the aviation industry, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is making difficult decisions.

YVR is forecasting less passenger traffic for some time, and staff anticipate operating as a smaller airport as they go through a multi-year rebuild.

Reducing the airport authority’s workforce is a difficult but necessary change to align with current and forecasted operational requirements.

Vancouver Airport Authority is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that manages YVR. It comprises just over 500 staff in areas including airport operations, finance, engineering, human resources, administration and more.

YVR is beginning the workforce reduction process, offering voluntary departure packages to all employees. Layoffs will follow. As this process is currently underway, YVR is unable to share more information at this time, but will provide more updates to the public in the coming weeks.

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