Victoria International Airport

Victoria International Airport (CYYJ) is a medium airport in Victoria, BC, Canada. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code CYYJ or IATA code YYJ. It sits in North America.

Victoria International Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 6,998 ft (2,133 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.

Victoria International Airport sits near sea level at 63 ft.

Local operations run on America/Vancouver. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 145 departing and 3 arriving private-jet legs at CYYJ across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 aircraft from 4 operators are based here or fly through regularly, so most empty-leg supply originates from a local fleet rather than out-of-town repositioning.

Use this page to compare CYYJ against nearby alternatives, browse live empty-leg pricing in both directions, and brief yourself on the runway and elevation profile before you book.

Victoria International Airport serves Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is 12 nautical miles north northwest of Victoria on the Saanich Peninsula, with the bulk of the airport in North Saanich, and a small portion of the airfield extending into Sidney. The airport is run by the Victoria Airport Authority. YYJ has many non-stop daily flights to Vancouver International Airport, which is a major airport serving many global routes. Additionally, Victoria International has non-stop international service to Seattle (SEA), and domestic service to Ottawa (YOW), Toronto (YYZ), Montreal, Calgary (YYC), Edmonton (YEG), alongside several smaller cities in British Columbia and Yukon. The airport also has seasonal non-stop service to several Mexican resort destinations. Non-stop service between Victoria and the United States decreased by 50% at the beginning of September 2019 when Delta Air Lines permanently ended its three daily flights to Seattle, after which only Alaska Airlines continued to fly the route.