YVR traffic rebounds from pandemic, travel down from China

Tamara Vrooman: “A change due to the pandemic, but also, frankly, to geopolitical factors, we don’t have that Chinese traffic.” The Vancouver International Airport has seen a rebound in airline passengers since the pandemic was declared in 2020 but reduced international travel — particularly from China — is preventing the airport from eclipsing its best traffic year of 2019. Recent data from the airport shows 2019 was a record year, with 26.3 million passengers travelling through the airport, or YVR as it's also known. Those numbers dropped to 7.3 million in 2020 and seven million in 2021, before increasing to…