LordAvalon

You might help with the following:

1) Many flights from Paris to Papeete do a technical stop in Los
Angeles. Is a biometric passport (or visa) needed for such a stop? Do
the passengers actually enter the USA? (According the info I could grab
on the web i have an inkling it might be mandatory even to fly over the
country!).

2) Is there a cost and time effective alternative to stopping in the
USA? Has anybody tried to go through Chile or Canada?

Thank you for any feedback.

Trallala

dont feed this troll

everybody knows
that France is the only one out of 27 countries
which was not able to deliver biometric passports to her citizens,
despite their promizes

due to a conflict with their own administration
( the monopolistic Imprimerie Nationale )

So people who have a machine readable passport ( bar code )
issued after 26 oct 05 need to apply for a visa for the US

In holy France, the big Administration
is shitting on their own tax-payers

Banana Republic



"LordAvalon" <[email protected]> a �crit dans le message de news:
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    > You might help with the following:
    > 1) Many flights from Paris to Papeete do a technical stop in Los
    > Angeles. Is a biometric passport (or visa) needed for such a stop? Do
    > the passengers actually enter the USA? (According the info I could grab
    > on the web i have an inkling it might be mandatory even to fly over the
    > country!).
    > 2) Is there a cost and time effective alternative to stopping in the
    > USA? Has anybody tried to go through Chile or Canada?
    > Thank you for any feedback.
    >

Ajc

On 27 Feb 2006 01:46:01 -0800, "LordAvalon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >You might help with the following:
    >1) Many flights from Paris to Papeete do a technical stop in Los
    >Angeles. Is a biometric passport (or visa) needed for such a stop? Do
    >the passengers actually enter the USA? (According the info I could grab
    >on the web i have an inkling it might be mandatory even to fly over the
    >country!).

I'm afraid it is a case of entering the US with all that involves,
only to leave again! And doing so at Los Angeles can be a nightmare
experience.



    >2) Is there a cost and time effective alternative to stopping in the
    >USA? Has anybody tried to go through Chile or Canada?


Via Canada is not possible without a very complicated routing. The
other alternative would be via Japan. Air France CDG-Tokyo connecting
to Air Tahiti Nui onwards to Papeete.
--==++AJC++==--

justforpostings

LordAvalon a �crit :

< You might help with the following:
<
< 1) Many flights from Paris to Papeete do a technical stop in Los
< Angeles. Is a biometric passport (or visa) needed for such a stop? Do
< the passengers actually enter the USA? (According the info I could
grab
< on the web i have an inkling it might be mandatory even to fly over
the
< country!).

Check
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/tem...ut_1990.html#6
and related links.

For what I understand, biometric passport is required for
US visa waiver programm if the passport is issued after
october 26, 2005 - if you already have a machine-readable
passport issued before that date, you can still use it (?)

< 2) Is there a cost and time effective alternative to stopping in the
< USA? Has anybody tried to go through Chile or Canada?
<
< Thank you for any feedback.