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Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2017, 9:23 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

Was your bag in the Customs Hall as it would have been offloaded to change planes. Did you take the bag off a carousel within the Customs Hall and put it on a connector belt also within the Customs...
Forum: Canada
Oct 30th 2017, 1:26 am
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

They get off the plane and enter the Customs hall. They either go to a kiosk or an officer in a booth. If they have a declaration card the officer will code it top right corner usually. If using the...
Forum: Canada
Oct 29th 2017, 11:50 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

I always prefer to use the legal requirements under the Customs Act and policies and procedures of the CBSA over an airline website.

You are obligated by Canadian law to present yourself to an...
Forum: Canada
Oct 29th 2017, 8:48 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

See this is a typical example of what an airline says and what it can or cannot do when clearing Customs.
There is no way that CBSA would allow a deplaning passenger off a LHR flight arrive at LBPIA...
Forum: Canada
Oct 28th 2017, 1:27 am
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

Your 1st paragraph does make some very valid points which the UK have been using for years i.e. green line nothing to declare and red line something to declare. Im certainly not against that type of...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 10:50 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

The cardboard in mouth is Im assuming the declaration card or kiosk ticket that you get. Many use this approach USA, UK for non EU passport holders, Cuba, Mexico and a few others. Now granted Mexico...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 6:38 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

Well yes there is that advantage.
Now normally this is the procedure.

Passenger gets off plane and presents declaration card and passport to an officer in a booth or scans passport at a kiosk...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 6:27 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

I just find it hard to comprehend that a suitcase belonging to a passenger is checked in and that the passenger does not collect if from the baggage belt in the Customs area and then place it onto a...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 6:10 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

From the LBPIA webpage
Connecting to a Domestic flight within Terminals 1 & 3
Toronto Pearson is your first point of entry into Canada. Therefore, even if your baggage is tagged through to your...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 5:53 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

But that is pre clearance which is different to regular Customs clearance. The US officer knows ahead of time how many bags you have checked and can have it pulled. When arriving internationally (not...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 5:02 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

I wouldn't exactly call arriving at LBPIA fun. More akin to being tortured with bamboo shoots or having teeth extracted by pliers and thats on a good day. Well maybe a slight exaggeration but...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 4:34 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

Now I could be wrong as I have never worked at the most efficient airport in the world that is LBPIA (Toronto).
If someone has the answer to this question please post the answer.

You are flying...
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 4:00 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

:rofl: Thank god Im not at the airport anymore and needless to say our staff aren't all that impressed with the new procedures.
Forum: Canada
Oct 27th 2017, 3:35 pm
Replies: 62
Views: 4,225
Posted By Former Lancastrian

Re: new to flying, could do with some help/advise

Well the Toronto cabbies would ensure that any Amish bid for that service would be quashed :sneaky:
I thought the new PIK kiosks would make it easier for travellers and have you downloaded the...
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