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February 2015 BCBusiness 33
On a busy Friday afternoon
in late November, Vancouver Airport
Authority president and
CEO Craig Rich-
mond power walks, and talks, down
the main corridor of the international
departures terminal—past a navy-clad
Lufthansa crew and snaking queues at
the check-in counters for Shenyang- and
Seoul-bound f lights. Richmond, who
heads Canada's second-busiest airport
(behind Toronto's Pearson), is respon-
sible for the well-being of the 19.2 million
passengers projected to pass through
YVR this year and the 23,000 people who
work, directly or indirectly, for the air-
port each day.
How Vancouver International airport–
known to its friends simply as
yVr–cracked the top five in this year's
Ipsos/BCBusiness survey of
b.C.'s most loved brands
B.C.'s
most loved
Brands
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