MiniRTW Back to the Banana Republic of Canada
Sep 7, 2012, 5:59 am
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Posts: 472
MiniRTW Back to the Banana Republic of Canada
Arrived back in Toronto yesterday after a miniRTW on Aeroplan
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
Sep 7, 2012, 6:20 am
#2
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 3,130
Arrived back in Toronto yesterday after a miniRTW on Aeroplan
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
Why we can't do it in the British Red/Green channel way, I don't know.
Airport connectivity is ... well it's laughably bad. I was in DEL earlier this year. Even that monster of chaotic organization has conjured up a direct high speed metro service to the airport. How they pulled it off in a city as crowded as Delhi, I do not know. But if they could, I can't understand why we can't.
Politically influential cab companies?
Sep 7, 2012, 7:18 am
#5
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Programs: United MileagePlus Silver, Nexus, Global Entry
Posts: 8,798
Used my new Nexus card for the first time (at YVR) the other week. The heavies from Europe had come in with the resultant long lines. I just breezed through.
Sep 7, 2012, 10:17 am
#6
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: NYC
Programs: AA GLD, AC
Posts: 4,212
I have never in my life experienced an hour-long wait at Canadian immigration at any airport in Canada, including in YYZ at peak periods. I'm usually in and out within five minutes. Are you sure you're not exaggerating just a touch?
Meanwhile, I have regularly experienced 30-minute-plus waits at both YYZ and YUL when departing for the US and going through US procedures (and I'm a US citizen.) I've also waited that long or more in line to go through immigration at IAD. And at LHR (albeit in the non-EU line.)
I really don't see much to complain about in Canada.
Meanwhile, I have regularly experienced 30-minute-plus waits at both YYZ and YUL when departing for the US and going through US procedures (and I'm a US citizen.) I've also waited that long or more in line to go through immigration at IAD. And at LHR (albeit in the non-EU line.)
I really don't see much to complain about in Canada.
Sep 7, 2012, 10:32 am
#7
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: トロント
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 4,815
Arrived back in Toronto yesterday after a miniRTW on Aeroplan
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
YYZ WHAT A DISGRACE .
9 countries and Canada is the only country that
Cannot figure out the immigration lines for its own citizens.
Lineups over an hour long. Where you from ? Canada. too bad line up behind every one else just because you are a citizen doesn't make you different.
HERE'S TIP
Go in the connecting flights line tell them you are going to Ottawa and skip the long line
Then we take the rapid transit to downtown.
Oh wait a second we are back In the 3rd world(Bali, Cambodia , Hanoi)
Toronto the world class wannabe can't get you downtown unless by cab or bus
Here is a better tip. Get Nexus and Global Entry.
Sep 7, 2012, 11:12 am
#9
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Ottawa
Programs: AC, SPG, HH +others
Posts: 389
I have never in my life experienced an hour-long wait at Canadian immigration at any airport in Canada, including in YYZ at peak periods. I'm usually in and out within five minutes. Are you sure you're not exaggerating just a touch?
Meanwhile, I have regularly experienced 30-minute-plus waits at both YYZ and YUL when departing for the US and going through US procedures (and I'm a US citizen.) I've also waited that long or more in line to go through immigration at IAD. And at LHR (albeit in the non-EU line.)
I really don't see much to complain about in Canada.
Meanwhile, I have regularly experienced 30-minute-plus waits at both YYZ and YUL when departing for the US and going through US procedures (and I'm a US citizen.) I've also waited that long or more in line to go through immigration at IAD. And at LHR (albeit in the non-EU line.)
I really don't see much to complain about in Canada.
Sep 7, 2012, 10:19 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: YUL
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 446
