\u2018Wings Express\u2019 trips to\/from BC Lions games start with Snoop\u2019s Concert Kickoff<\/p>\n
Published 6:50 pm Wednesday, May 28, 2025<\/p>\n
This football season BC Lions fans can hop a chartered bus to and from home games from select Wings\u00a0locations in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CFL team has partnered with the restaurant chain and\u00a0TRAXX Coachlines for Wings Express round-trip ticket packages involving six weekend home games at\u00a0Save-On-Foods Field at BC Place, starting with the big\u00a0Concert Kickoff\u00a0on Saturday, June 7.<\/p>\n
Participating Wings locations are in Abbotsford, Burnaby, Chilliwack, Langley, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey and Tsawwassen, for games June 7 (against Edmonton),\u00a0June 21 (Winnipeg), July 19 (Saskatchewan), July 27 (Hamilton), Aug. 16 (Montreal)\u00a0and Oct. 4 (Calgary).<\/p>\n
“Each Wings\u00a0restaurant will be providing different specials and packages throughout the weekend,” says a post on\u00a0bclions.com\/wings-express<\/a>, where prices aren’t mentioned.<\/p>\n Bus departure times will vary, and all coaches\u00a0are expected to arrive at BC Place 45 minutes before kick-off “to ensure all the WINGS ticketholders have lots of time to enjoy the pre-game festivities and find their seats before the game,” the website promises.<\/p>\n Post-game, the buses will depart for\u00a0Wings 30 minutes after the final whistle.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re thrilled to partner with the BC Lions on this exciting new game-day experience,” says Laticia Naicker, VP of Goldwings Entertainment, who said the express bus will\u00a0bring\u00a0people together, celebrate\u00a0local pride “and deliver\u00a0the kind of fun, community-focused energy we love to be part of. We can\u2019t wait to help fans ride in style to the roar at BC Place.”<\/p>\n The Concert Kickoff game<\/a>\u00a0June 7 will feature a pre-game performance by American rapper\/singer Snoop Dogg.\u00a0The Lions have again opened the upper bowl of BC Place Stadium for the home-opener.\u00a0Stadium doors will open at 5 p.m., followed by Snoop’s 5:45 p.m. concert.\u00a0The game’s 7 p.m.\u00a0kickoff will allow\u00a0fans to enjoy an extended Backyard Party on Terry Fox Plaza. Tickets are available on\u00a0bclions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Wings Express\u2019 trips to\/from BC Lions games start with Snoop\u2019s Concert Kickoff Published 6:50 pm Wednesday, May 28,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-539870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}