Ground stop at YVR (YVR), Oct 16, 2026

EndedFire alarm halts departures to Vancouver for 45 minutes

Started: Fri, Oct 16, 11:42 PM UTC23:42 UTC
Ended: Sat, Oct 17, 12:27 AM UTC00:27 UTC
Duration: 45 min
Cause: OCL:

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What happened

AI-written · may contain mistakes. Written from the advisory text and weather only.

Cause: A fire alarm and safety problem at the airport led air traffic control to stop flights from leaving for Vancouver until it was resolved.

The ground stop on departures to Vancouver began at 23:42 UTC on October 16 and ended at 00:27 UTC on October 17, lasting 45 minutes. Departures were held from five air traffic control centers. Early on, the chance of extending the stop was raised to medium, but the stop ended without being extended.

Impact by airline

No airline data was collected for this ground stop.

Airline numbers appear after the first sample, within about 20 minutes of the start.

Impact by region

Air traffic control centers whose departures to the airport were held.

Center	Status
ZLA	Held
ZLC	Held
ZDV	Held
ZOA	Held
ZSE	Held

Timeline

Every change published while the ground stop was in effect, as seen each minute.

Oct 16, 11:42 PM UTC
Ground stop issued at YVR for ocl:, until 5:45 pm PDT. Departures held from ZLA, ZLC, ZDV, ZOA and 1 more.
Oct 16, 11:46 PM UTC
Chance of extension now medium.
Oct 17, 12:27 AM UTC
Ground stop ended after 45 min.

Advisories

The air traffic control advisories issued for this ground stop, as published.

Advisory 6016

CTL ELEMENT: CYVR
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 2339Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 16/2324Z - 17/0045Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (2ndTier) CZW ZLA ZLC ZDV ZOA ZSE CZE CZV
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 0 / 0 / 0
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 679 / 72 / 34
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: OTHER / OCL: FIRE ALARM/SAFETY
COMMENTS:

Original advisory ↗

How it is measured

Status, timeline, cause and held centers: the national airspace status feed, checked every minute, and the air traffic control advisories it links to.
Delays by airline and region: departures and arrivals at YVR 30 or more minutes late, by their estimated delay against the schedule, sampled every 10 minutes while the stop is active and once more after it ends.
Totals and cancellations: arrival and departure boards for YVR, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at YVR; cancelled is the airline's cancelled status; codeshares count once. Flights scheduled from the start until an hour after the end are counted.
Held at origin: the same arrivals boards, which carry each flight's scheduled and actual departure from its origin. A flight is held when it is still scheduled, not departed, 15 or more minutes past its scheduled departure at a sample taken during the stop. In scope: its origin is in a held center or listed facility; flights from elsewhere are late for other reasons.
Inbound in the air: the same arrivals boards. At each board taken during the stop, a flight to YVR is in the air when it has departed (en route, or with an actual departure time) and not landed, cancelled or diverted; one still shown in the air over an hour past its arrival estimate, or departed more than 18 hours earlier, is treated as stale and left out.
Diversions: an inbound flight marked diverted during the stop or the wrap-up after it (not one marked before it could have departed), or one still shown in the air 30+ minutes past its arrival estimate that ADS-B (by its ICAO call sign) then found on the ground at another airport, not its origin. The diversion airport is the airport ADS-B found it at, else the updated destination. Cancellations never count. Regional flights flown under another call sign can't be found on ADS-B, so their diversion airport may be unknown.
Aircraft on the ground and holding: ADS-B positions around YVR, every 5 minutes; the airline is read from the call sign. Holding counts airline flights only (passenger, regional and cargo), not private, military or medical flights.
Weather: METARs, SIGMETs and weather alerts.
News: headline links filtered to this airport and these days; we show titles and links only.

Data sources are listed on the credits page.