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Re: Embarrassing Question
[Re: eskimo888]
#32315
01/07/2015 11:39 AM
01/07/2015 11:39 AM
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PrairieGirl
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As a general rule, bags are tagged through to the final destination, you land at your first US destination, pass through Customs/Immigration, pick up your bags while still inside the Customs area, pass the final check point where you hand in your card and drop off your checked luggage at an area immediately outside marked "connecting flights". You then pass through a TSA checkpoint (but not nearly as big as those in the main terminal) and go to your next gate.
HOWEVER, I can't guarantee that this will be the case at YOUR first airport, so be to check - I'll bet you can even look at that airport's official website and find out for sure.
If you get tied up in a huge Customs or TSA line, being only carry-on won't help. It should take all of five minutes to collect your checked luggage and put it on the "connecting flights" conveyor belt. The kicker would be if your airport didn't use this process and you had to actually recheck your bags. Since your port of entry must have customs & immigration, it is quite likely to be a larger airport.
But you are doing the right thing by finding out now, not the day you fly!
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Re: Embarrassing Question
[Re: eskimo888]
#32317
01/07/2015 11:43 AM
01/07/2015 11:43 AM
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In your case you'll have to clear US Immigration, claim your checked bags, clear US Customs and re-clear TSA (Security). Thus a 1 hour 15 minute connecting time with checked luggage is cutting it VERY CLOSE and will work only if every aligns perfectly in your favor. The least bit of a delay in any phase of your travel (flight delay, long lines at Immigration and/or Customs, being singled out at Customs for a thorough inspection, a delay in you baggage reaching the carrousel, long lines at TSA, etc. and you'll miss your connecting flight. Even with only carry-on you are cutting it very close and leaving no margin for error.
Remember, better to have an extra 30 or 60 minutes wait time at your connecting flight's departure gate rather than arrive at the gate 1 minute after the plane closes the door and pushes back from the gate.
Allow at least 90 minutes between flights if doing Carry-on and at least 2 hours if checking luggage.
Last edited by Fletch; 01/07/2015 11:45 AM.
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