Hey Gang

trying to book flights for the hols and discovering that aviation from Canadian soil is....
"millionaire friendly".

I heard its popular for Canadians to sometimes fly from US gateway cities.

I can be in Bangor, ME in about 10 hours. Which is a chunk, but less than the chunk Air Canada are planning to extract from me for four seats. I am looking at saving about 2K CAD.

Of course the risk is that our cousins south of the border might just stop us for sh1ts and giggles at Calais as is their wont. Any hints/tips from those that have gone before me would be most appreciated.

We are PR, have our documents, current UK passports, clean car and records. I have been to the US a few times from UK with no problems but never via a road crossing.

Anyways, thanks in advance.

wbx

Flying out of Bangor is ridiculously expensive and not much of a hub, Portland is worse and people travel up to Montreal to avoid flying through Boston...

Getting into Maine shouldn't be a problem, but if your flying in, you probably have to fill in the ESTA online jobby, no idea about land border if you drive over though.

We've flown from Portland which is about 5.5 hours drive from where we are in NB.

For comparison, family of 5 to Orlando, changing in Baltimore cost us $1700 US. To fly out of Fredericton would have cost us almost $5000 CAD. Why would we fly with Air Canada for that cost?

Getting into the US hasn't been a problem for us, just need to allow a little extra time to get the visas. We've always at Woodstock though.

We came through Calais and remember you are leaving the US and only get stopped at the Canadian border not by the rabid homeland stupity corp.

We flew to Boston (2pm) and drove up through Maine (stopped over night in coast cottage) and reached Fredericton next morning.