Originally Posted by markonline1

What's the deal with your luggage. Do you have to pick it up at SFO and recheck it in? I'm not sure as there will obviously be no customs nor border patrol at SLO. If your bags are checked straight through, you maybe ok, but those immigration lines can be worse than the security lines sometimes. The good news is, if you miss your connection, United will stick you on the next available flight free of charge. The bad news is SLO will probably only have one or two flights a day to SFO so you may have a pretty horrendous layover in the airport. I'm flying to OKC a lot at the moment. I missed my last connection from SFO to Monterey by 5 minutes. There was a 12 hour wait for the next flight. I ended up taking a 3 hour bus ride home!
Oh and international is one thing, they can make up the time and it won't have such a knock on if it arrives a little late. The flight from SFO to SLO will be one of their regional hopper flights. They won't hold it.

Originally Posted by Pulaski

I thought you always had to reclaim your luggage on arrival (first airport you land at) in the US and clear customs, because internal flights are exactly that, internal.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Thought you had to go through immigration...collect your luggage and clear customs at the first airport when you land in US. From then on it's an internal flight with no immigration or customs.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Thought you had to go through immigration...collect your luggage and clear customs at the first airport when you land in US. From then on it's an internal flight with no immigration or customs.

Originally Posted by markonline1

Yeah, I dunno, I've never flown an international flight followed by an internal flight. That's why I asked the question.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Even if you are transiting the US you still have to clear immigration and customs at the first airport before boarding a flight to another country.

Originally Posted by Noorah101

Your USC wife can go through tie visitor line, but you can't go through her USC line.

Rene

Originally Posted by markonline1

Yeah, I dunno, I've never flown an international flight followed by an internal flight. That's why I asked the question.

Originally Posted by markonline1

Yeah, I knew you had to clear both immigration and customs, but wasn't sure if you had to physically had to collect your bags. The TSA can open an unattended bag,and do so regularly so it goes without saying that customs could do the same. That's why I wasn't sure if you physically needed your bag to clear customs.

Originally Posted by bewildering

Should be fine.

SFO is quite compact. 90 minutes is a good amount of time. I usually give myself 60 minutes connection time for domestic flights and that is excessive.

When do you arrive? There are 3 flights a day to SLO.

The other thing is that you are close enough to drive to SLO from SF. 4 hours drive if you do miss that particular flight.

Originally Posted by ubernathan

Some out-of-US airports have their own little bit of US to clear immigration and customs there (for instance Vancouver and Ottawa). Such flights are exceptional and you'll arrive at a domestic terminal.

Originally Posted by tonrob

US pre-clearance is done at all Canadian airports with US flights, plus Dublin, Shannon and Abu Dhabi and certian Carribean airports. There are talks of adding other places but nothing concrete yet as far as I know.

https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/...s/preclearance

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Not all Canadian airports with US flights have pre-clearance.

Victoria, BC has US flights but no pre-clearance. ....

Originally Posted by tonrob

It's got nothing to do with the TSA. It's USCBP, and they can't open TSA locks. You have to collect your bags.