BC Ferries adds 180 extra sailings for long weekend travel – BC | 24CA News
Thousands of passengers are anticipated to make use of BC Ferries’ companies this Easter lengthy weekend.
BC Ferries stated it has added 180 further sailings to its busiest route in anticipation of the inflow of travellers and to hopefully stop lengthy waits, together with 128 journeys between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay.
BC Ferries has been suffering from staffing shortages in current months and bonus lengthy weekend sailings are sometimes the primary to be cancelled when there’s not sufficient crew.
But the group stated they’ve a mitigation plan for this weekend with further crew on standby and workers accepting extra time.
“Our dedicated staff is stepping up to give us a higher level of comfort to launch extra sailings over Easter,” stated Dean Dobrinsky, BC Ferries’ interim vp of individuals and tradition.
“We can’t thank them enough for helping us to protect the long weekend service in the face of a continued shortage of licensed officers.”
Passengers are inspired to make journey as easy as potential reminiscent of reserving prematurely, arriving at terminals early, anticipating waits at fashionable occasions, ride-sharing and probably leaving the automobile at house and strolling onto a ferry.
“There’s no doubt, we’re still critically short of licensed officers and we have more work to do as we head into the summer, but we’ve pulled out all the stops to protect each and every Easter sailing,” stated Dobrinsky.
BC Ferries advises all vacationers to remain up to date by going to its web site or Twitter pages.
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