MCO International Immigration - Faster Line?
Aug 20, 2016, 3:02 pm
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MCO International Immigration - Faster Line?
MCO... no GE for this trip.
International immigration on my last trip appeared to have a quicker line for those traveling with an ESTA and been within last few years... you had to head left rather than right.
Did I make this up?
It seemed the quicker line headed directly to the computer terminals rather than having to use the regular line. If I am right does this ever change... don't fancy storming off to the left only to get sent back!
International immigration on my last trip appeared to have a quicker line for those traveling with an ESTA and been within last few years... you had to head left rather than right.
Did I make this up?
It seemed the quicker line headed directly to the computer terminals rather than having to use the regular line. If I am right does this ever change... don't fancy storming off to the left only to get sent back!
Aug 31, 2016, 12:35 pm
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Who are you flying in with as they have at least two facilities for international arrivals at MCO
We had an odd experience landing on B6 the other day. Computer terminals were to the left, regular line was to the right.
However there were signs saying terminals were for US & Canadian citizens only, so we got in a very slow moving line behind a flight from Brazil.
Then there was a rolling display on the TV screens that said ESTA pax could use the terminals. I left the rest of the family in the line & asked one of the Ambassadors, who told me that "once the line had cleared for US & Canadian citizens, they would open it up to ESTA passengers" which seemed rather strange, as potentially it would never clear, (and there was never any announcement made).
So in our case, yes definitely quicker with an ESTA, and the line was on the left.
We had an odd experience landing on B6 the other day. Computer terminals were to the left, regular line was to the right.
However there were signs saying terminals were for US & Canadian citizens only, so we got in a very slow moving line behind a flight from Brazil.
Then there was a rolling display on the TV screens that said ESTA pax could use the terminals. I left the rest of the family in the line & asked one of the Ambassadors, who told me that "once the line had cleared for US & Canadian citizens, they would open it up to ESTA passengers" which seemed rather strange, as potentially it would never clear, (and there was never any announcement made).
So in our case, yes definitely quicker with an ESTA, and the line was on the left.
Sep 5, 2016, 2:22 pm
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Who are you flying in with as they have at least two facilities for international arrivals at MCO
We had an odd experience landing on B6 the other day. Computer terminals were to the left, regular line was to the right.
However there were signs saying terminals were for US & Canadian citizens only, so we got in a very slow moving line behind a flight from Brazil.
Then there was a rolling display on the TV screens that said ESTA pax could use the terminals. I left the rest of the family in the line & asked one of the Ambassadors, who told me that "once the line had cleared for US & Canadian citizens, they would open it up to ESTA passengers" which seemed rather strange, as potentially it would never clear, (and there was never any announcement made).
So in our case, yes definitely quicker with an ESTA, and the line was on the left.
We had an odd experience landing on B6 the other day. Computer terminals were to the left, regular line was to the right.
However there were signs saying terminals were for US & Canadian citizens only, so we got in a very slow moving line behind a flight from Brazil.
Then there was a rolling display on the TV screens that said ESTA pax could use the terminals. I left the rest of the family in the line & asked one of the Ambassadors, who told me that "once the line had cleared for US & Canadian citizens, they would open it up to ESTA passengers" which seemed rather strange, as potentially it would never clear, (and there was never any announcement made).
So in our case, yes definitely quicker with an ESTA, and the line was on the left.
The line to the left was blocked off.
Around 3/5 of the way around the main queue we reached a point where they were asking pax if they were on ESTA and had travelled before. We had so were guided to the computer terminals which were under utilised most of the time.