BC Ferries vessel sailing between Vancouver, Victoria returns to service<\/p>\n
Published 2:41 pm Friday, April 3, 2026<\/p>\n
A BC Ferries vessel previously out of service will hit the water again today to help manage an onslaught of passengers this Easter.<\/p>\n
In a news release, BC Ferries said the starboard generator issue affecting the Spirit of Vancouver Island, which runs the Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen, has been repaired.<\/p>\n
The Vancouver-Victoria vessel will return to service April 3, providing additional sailings to support travel over the Easter long weekend.<\/p>\n
This comes just one day after B.C. Ferries\u2019 president and CEO Nicolas Jimenez said at a press conference that the Spirit of Vancouver Island and the Queen of Surrey were out of service.<\/p>\n
\u201cSailings added today will be used to accommodate standby customers already at the terminals and will not be available for advance booking,\u201d BC Ferries said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Standby space will be limited, and customers without a reservation should expect delays.<\/p>\n
For sailings added in the coming days, some customers whose reservations were cancelled will be contacted directly regarding rebooking as sailings are reinstated.<\/p>\n
Additional space will be made available for booking as capacity is confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BC Ferries vessel sailing between Vancouver, Victoria returns to service Published 2:41 pm Friday, April 3, 2026 By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-580862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580862","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=580862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}