After months of crew shortages and cancelled sailings, B.C. Ferries has hired hundreds of new staff and scheduled more sailings for its busiest South Coast routes on the May long weekend. 

Ferry reservations to some locations had already been booked up weeks ago, but now the ferry service says it has created 110 extra sailings from May 19-24, most of which are between Vancouver and Victoria. 

There are 74 new sailings on the Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay route, including some early morning departures.

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