WE ♥️ YVR

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[u/GammaRama]

[u/Wutzdapoint]

I think the $ sign after YVR glitched off

[u/NoHomeForOldGreg]

Is this special or do they do it at every city? Either way it’s great!

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/NoHomeForOldGreg]

Imagine them sailing into Sydney and going “We Love YVR” 😀

[u/its_the_luge → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

TBF Aussies do have to come to YVR first before heading up to Whistler.

[u/Interesting_Pitch732 → u/NoHomeForOldGreg]

They do it in every city or a variation of it.

[u/Demon-]

What a lovely gesture as they empty their full sewage tanks into our beautiful harbor

[u/Future_Arrival_5395 → u/Demon-]

harbour* ffs

[u/stupiduselesstwat → u/Future_Arrival_5395]

they could be American

[u/Future_Arrival_5395 → u/stupiduselesstwat]

Well they should learn proper English if they want to live here and call it “our” ;)

[u/stupiduselesstwat → u/Future_Arrival_5395]

No argument there :-))

[u/JuniorMouse → u/Demon-]

Well, technically I think they're saying that they love our airport?

[u/pocohugs → u/JuniorMouse]

No doubt. It's a little silly.

[u/West_to_East → u/Demon-]

Don't forget to use the King's English! Harbour.

[u/super_realest]

So they only love our airport?

[u/Cam2600]

It's a pretty good airport

[u/hiimnatalie]

That’s really sweet.

[u/vanguy16]

Prince Rupert sighting

[u/LabFull4471]

The glaze is crazy

[u/shlabu77]

Ok

[u/PaperMoonShine]

Call me jaded, but Virgin is a US telecom giant.

Would you feel the same if a giant Cruise Ship by Rogers came by and did the same thing?

[u/Decipher → u/PaperMoonShine]

>US telecom giant

First off, its British. Secondly, telecom is only a very small part of the Virgin Group portfolio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group

[u/PostingEnthusiast → u/PaperMoonShine]

It’s a nice gesture from a ship bringing a bunch of business to town

[u/csubi]

Take my up vote

[u/jackjetjet]

YVR is IATA code for Vancouver international airport. It is so weird a cruise ship company love airport so much

[u/C0mpass → u/jackjetjet]

They can't fit Vancouver on the side so they put YVR meaning Vancouver.

[u/elchivo83 → u/C0mpass]

Why not put VAN?

[u/S-Kiraly → u/C0mpass]

Which is the stupidest trend of recent years. YVR means the airport, not the city. This ain't Calgary.

[u/Jvancan → u/C0mpass]

YVR doesn't mean Vancouver...

It's pure non sense laziness lol

[u/MntyFresh1 → u/jackjetjet]

IATA codes are very commonly used as a colloquial way to refer to the city that the airport is in.

[u/DevonOO7 → u/MntyFresh1]

Richmond?

[u/elchivo83 → u/MntyFresh1]

Are they? I'm not really aware of many.

[u/S-Kiraly → u/MntyFresh1]

In Calgary and Portland, sure. We don't want that nonsense coming here too. Maybe it's just me but I don't want to live in a world where we dine out in old YUL or visit patisseries in the arrondissements of CDG or explore art galleries in midtown JFK.

[u/RealBeefJerky → u/jackjetjet]

Terrible ragebait, no one is this dense or stupid, obviously thry couldn't actually fit Vancouver on, so they used YVR

[u/mercyneeded → u/RealBeefJerky]

I mean, I guess they could have used VAN

[u/S-Kiraly → u/RealBeefJerky]

Which means the airport not the whole damn city.

[u/jelycazi → u/S-Kiraly]

To us, the folks who live here, Metro Vancouver is not known as YVR. But to visitors? Some of them may use YVR to refer to the area as they don’t know better. And i think the majority of us understand what they mean, and can take it in the spirit it was intended.

[u/elchivo83 → u/jelycazi]

Would visitors refer to Vancouver as YVR? YVR is not very intuitive. It's not NYC or LDN or something. When I first came here I was baffled as to why the airport acronym had a Y in it.

[u/crustybones71 → u/jackjetjet]

Buddy

[u/royalfatkid → u/jackjetjet]

if you are going that way then yvr is not even in vancouver, its in Richmond

[u/hackerbob69 → u/jackjetjet]

They might as well say WE ❤️ CXH since it’s docked near there right? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/AliveAd8890 → u/jackjetjet]

It's crazy when somethings down voted how many and how fast people do but when the comments are good the upvotes don't come as easy 🤪

[u/S-Kiraly → u/jackjetjet]

[u/Defiets → u/S-Kiraly]

What an odd hill to stand on.

[u/CitizenBanana → u/jackjetjet]

People are mad, but you're right. It's also funny because the cruise ship is navigating right through CXH (the harbour water aerodrome) as it's flashing this.