It's not quite a silly as it sounds. We'd not yet taken the brand-new SkyTrain line from downtown Vancouver out to the International Airport. We usually take transit when flying from YVR. We've always taken Bus #100 from New Westminster directly to the airport. Of course now that the new Canada Line is running all bus routes have changed to match up to new stations. We wanted to see how long it'd take to get on at our building, go to downtown on our line and then switch over and take a new train right to the departures terminal. The result was a leisurely one hour and fifteen minutes.
Returning, we got off at the Marine Drive station and waiting for the changed #100 bus. When going west it now lets off passengers at the station and continues to do the Marpole Loop. When at the station for the second time, it begins it's journey west back to 22nd Station. We caught that and got back in under an hour in total.
As we will be flying at 3:15 in the afternoon on Friday, most likely we'll forgo trying to save time and take the purely SkyTrain method as it seemed more relaxing. Doing it that way would also mean hauling three 50 lbs bags one less time.