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Flight from Abbotsford to Calgary

Flights from British Columbia to Alberta: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travellers who flew the route from British Columbia to Alberta 
TrevorFlew with Air Canada
YVR
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YEG
Jul 2026
If you're hoping to get on an earlier flight, easiest if you don't have checked baggage - get to the gate before the boarding of any earlier flights and kindly ask the attendants if you can board the should there be availability.
JoshFlew with WestJet
YVR
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YYC
Jun 2026
Know that you need to go to the Canadian side of the airport for flights, even if your connection is to a US airport.
IrumFlew with WestJet
YVR
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YYC
Dec 2025
both airports are well organised just have to keep a watch for gate changes thats all
JonathanFlew with WestJet
YLW
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YYC
Dec 2024
Make sure your carry on will fit in the luggage compartment. Only 21 inches not standard 22
Verified travelerFlew with WestJet
YLW
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YEG
Jun 2024
Check your fare class carefully to see if you can check a bag
CarolynFlew with WestJet
YVR
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YYC
Jun 2024
Do not check bags if you have a connecting flight.
MichaelFlew with Air Canada
YVR
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YEG
Jul 2024
Get flight insurance! With no respect for passengers from the monopolized system we have, you have to protect yourself.

FAQs for booking flights from British Columbia to Alberta

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from British Columbia to Alberta?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from British Columbia to Alberta.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from British Columbia to Alberta?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from British Columbia to Alberta is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from British Columbia to Alberta?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from British Columbia to Alberta with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from British Columbia to Alberta?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from British Columbia to Alberta up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airlines fly most frequently to Alberta?

    British Columbia and Alberta are connected by different airlines. The airlines that fly that route the most regularly are WestJet (623 flights per week), Delta (424 flights per week), and Air Canada (181 flights per week).

  • How many airports are there in Alberta?

    There are 6 airports in Alberta. The busiest airport is Calgary Airport (YYC), with 72% of all flights arriving there.

  • Which is the cheapest airport to fly into in Alberta?

    Prices will differ depending on the departure airport, but generally, the cheapest airport to fly to in Alberta is Edmonton Airport (YEG), with an average flight price of C$ 154.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to Alberta?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Alberta is Friday when round-trip tickets can be as cheap as C$ 285. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Tuesday, when round-trip prices are C$ 479 on average.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Alberta?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Alberta is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost C$ 305 on average. Morning departures are around 41% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Alberta is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is C$ 785.

  • What is the cheapest flight to Alberta?

    The cheapest ticket to Alberta from British Columbia found in the last 5 days was to Edmonton, at C$ 114 round-trip. The most popular route is Nanaimo (YCD) to Calgary (YYC), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was C$ 121.

  • What is the cheapest month to fly from British Columbia to Alberta?

    The cheapest month for flights from British Columbia to Alberta is October, when tickets cost C$ 83 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is C$ 151 and C$ 147 respectively.

  • How far in advance should I book a flight from British Columbia to Alberta?

    To get a below-average price on a flight from British Columbia to Alberta, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 22% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 weeks before departure.

  • How many cities have direct flights to Alberta?

    From British Columbia, there are direct flights to Alberta from 13 cities. The city with the most direct flights is Vancouver, with 1,416 direct flights each week.

  • How many direct flights to Alberta are there each day?

    There are around 380 direct flights from within British Columbia to Alberta every day. Most flights (44%) depart in the morning.

  • How many direct flights to Alberta are there each week?

    Each week there are around 2,655 direct flights from within British Columbia to Alberta. The most common day for departures is Sunday, with 16% of flights taking off on this day.

  • How long is the flight to Alberta?

    An average direct flight from British Columbia to Alberta takes 2h 53m, covering a distance of 1112 km. The shortest route is Kelowna (YLW) to Edmonton (YEG) with an average flight time of 0h 20m.

  • How many long-haul flights are there to Alberta each week?

    There aren’t any long-haul (6-12 hour flight duration) or medium-haul (3-6 hour flight duration) flights to Alberta. Instead, there are 2,484 short-haul flights (up to 3 hour flight duration), with the most arriving from Vancouver.

  • What are the most popular destinations in Alberta?

    Based on KAYAK flight searches, the most popular destination is Calgary (52% of total searches to Alberta). The next most popular destination is Edmonton (48%).

Reviews of the top 4 airlines flying from British Columbia to Alberta

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from British Columbia to Alberta? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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Central Mountain AirOverall score based on 1 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.0Entertainment
8.0Crew
8.0Food
8.0Boarding
Airline reviews

No food or entertainment which was ok given it was a small plane and a short flight , apart from that everything went smoothly and was much easier than having to take two flight to get to the same destination. Central Mountain Air

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Oct 2023
YLW - YXS
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No food or entertainment which was ok given it was a small plane and a short flight , apart from that everything went smoothly and was much easier than having to take two flight to get to the same destination. Central Mountain Air

Everyone was extremely friendly and nice, from the front desk to the cabin crew!

I like that we landed safely and that my dog was safe underneath as well. Outside of that, we were 45 mins late for a direct flight that is 1.5 hours long. And 2 of my 3 bags did not make the flight. Only my dog was onboard.

Decent entertainment although my wife was not offered any ear buds so couldn’t enjoy. Real issue was the appalling food. Presentation was unacceptable with cheap hard to open packaged bread, plastic cheese again in hard to open shrink wrap, main course in small cardboard box again hard to open, wooden utensils which lack substance making the whole experience poor. Surprised I didn’t cover myself or neighbour as the food moved all over the place. Breakfast calzone was dry and unappealing with the staff basically throwing them around. Very disappointed

I wasn’t checked in for the third leg of my flight, my bag was checked through to Dublin but when I went to the gate in Toronto they said I wasn’t on the flight and had given my seat away. I had to wait 24 hours for another flight and instead on the one I had booked it was now 2 flights.

No food, water, snacks.”beverages”. This was on Christmas Day. Upgrading cost $100, for what exactly?

Flight delayed missed connecting flight crew not very helpful very frustrating customer service

Again, flight was late. It’s expected of this airline now i guess.

Delayed 8 hours, This is the 2nd time in a month that my flight was not on time.

Delays and missed connections were very hard the crew were wonderful but 1 1/2 hours late from Abbotsford to a 4 hour wait in Calgary was too much. I am 79 years old and I didn’t get to my destination until after 1 in the morning. They could have offered a seat in the lounge or a meal. I was very disappointed in the treatment

My flight was delayed three times then eventually cancelled the next flight was the following day scheduled for 1030 it was delayed I had to cancel reservations I had to put people up in hotels on the other end as they came out of town to pick me up all at my expense because WestJet couldn’t get it together I’m very disappointed in WestJet’s performance and how they handled the situation Get your customers to where they need to be in a timely fashion, even if that means putting them on your competitors jets Customer service should be number one I will think twice now with booking with WestJet

This was the best Air Canada experience i've ever had! We didn't realize we could switch to an earlier flight and I asked the attendant as they were boarding the 8pm flight. She kindly let me know to make such requests prior to boarding in the future, but she was very understanding that we just came through security with young kids and was able to make the changes for us. When we got on the plane, the lady in the back was super friendly, welcoming, and kind. She was great with our kids and with the other passengers and we just enjoyed her presence so much!.

It was one and a half hour flight, however it was delayed for one hour, no bus running after getting off the C-Train,

Our original flight was cancelled due to mechanical reasons. This cancellation caused us to miss our connection and we were not able to get another flight for 3 days and then needed to make an extra connection to get there. Air Canada did not rebook our flight for us, it took several hours of talking with staff in the airport and making phone calls to get the flights rebooked. We never received a voucher for our hotel and meals while we were waiting for our next flight and it was only after talking to several staff that we were provided some general information about how we could be reimbursed. We tried entering our ticket information in the website provided, but it did not recognize our flight information. When we asked someone on the phone about this they said we'd need to contact the customer relations department, but that it's not possible to reach them on the phone. I don't understand what company would have a customer relations department that you can't talk to. We spent about $1,000 for hotels and meals for our family while waiting for a flight home and I'm not confident we will ever get reimbursed for this. I understand that mechanical issues can happen to any airline, but this is the 4th time that this has happened to my wife and I on Air Canada and we have only flown Air Canada about 8 times, so this is not a good track record. Also, when we did finally get a flight home (which was also delayed due to mechanical problems), we were told we couldn't bring a standard carry on even though the information on our ticket clearly indicated that we could bring a carry on bag. The staff at the gate were not understanding about this situation.

Just the stress of possible cancellations on flights from Air Canada, but all went as planned and everything was perfect! Thank you

It would have been better if it wasn’t cancelled

This flight was canceled at the last moment and I was stranded in the Vancouver International. I spent the night there without compensation and the staff looked annoyed and wanted to get rid of the passengers without offering much help.

Flt was Vanc to Toronto. You don’t serve food and child behind me kicking the seat. Otherwise good.

More room for carry-on. Or having people bring correct carry-on.

I was instructed to put my carry on under my seat, because it was a backpack, not a wheeled carrying. It it almost the same size as a wheeled carrying, soni had no legroom for the flight and could not even put my feet flat on the floor. I spent the entire flight with my ankle and knee twisted and could barely walk by the time we landed. As other travellers boarded, the same flight attendant allowed them to put their small backpacks in the overhead bins, along with their wheeled carry ons. There were empty luggage bins when the plane took off. Air Canada clearly does not care.about the comfort of their passengers.

To be honest, nothing went well. Our flight was cancelled and we had a total nightmare trying to find out information of what to do. We had $2000.00 in frozen fish that we had to locate and then fight with Air Canada to get a hotel for the night that had a freezer. It took over 5 hours to resolve and 5 levels of management. We went from the customer service desk to a manager, to a lead manager, who had to contact Toronto, who had to wait for an answer from another level of management as to whether or not they could put us up at a "business class" hotel since it was the only option and we were "econo class" passengers. The vouchers we received for food barely bought a supper and breakfast and although the hotel was nice, our fish was definitely not cared for from start to finish and after a once in a lifetime fishing trip to have it end the way it did was such a disappointment and Air Canada, well, they really didn't care.

Their "free personal" requirement is to have your bag fit in a containment frame that is way too narrow and slender than the space under the actual plane seat (the length of my vitamin water was longer than the width of the containment frame. They had personel at the gate literally designated to hounding people's bags in the zone line up, and forcing them to measure their bag again if he felt "the bag might be too big for personal item". If your bag was too big for their scamming measurement criteria you had to fork up $110 CAD for the carry on cost ($85 at the 24hr online pre-check in). Plane had no entertainment, seats did not recline, and no complimentary snacks or drinks. Unless I have a short flight with zero bags, I won't be flying Flair ever again.

Not good Even after I made my booking, I was charged $90 for my boarding pass. I have collected boarding pass i pay $90 near . Flair airline not good. Without pay no boarding pass.

Personally, I will not use this fight again. The service is poor, you have to buy even water. They don't provide anything even sneak, you have to buy. They said Personally items for 7 kg. Then they use some measurements, if you have 7kg and if it's not getting inside of their measurements, you have to pay 80$ this is robbery. I will prefer other flight then this. I am désappointement taking this airplane.

The crew of this flight, specially the flight attendant in the front were the sweetest I’ve had in all my life, I genuinely hope they get a race or sum cuz of their efforts. It was just quite unsettling that the flight took so long to departure. It was supposed to leave at 10:35pm and we ended up taking off at 11:22pm…👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

TThe first time I have ever flown with flare and both ways sucked

Long wait for baggage check in with only one on site attendant.

The airplane smokes and they think it's normal.... this is sign of deterioration

Flair aircraft smokes before takeoff... and this seem normal to air hostess..... smoking aircraft is not a good sign of safety

Flair’s customer service isn’t helpful at all and their refund is a scam

Other than being delayed two separate times and wasting half of the day waiting in the airport everything was actually very good.

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