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Old Aug 10, 2008 | 2:52 pm
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Originally Posted by drwoo
if your bags are checked thru then you dont have to pass customs or immigration in san jose, just walk from gate to gate.
You should be able to check your bags through to IAH, but you will have to tell them that as they have no way of knowing you have a connecting flight.

If you have to pick up bags and check them again, fugeaboutit

I've been turned away from CO counter one hour before scheduled takeoff with only hand luggage because "there is not enough time to clear customs"

Of course they did me a favor, as the plane a had a mechanical, and unlike pax who were already past security, I got a boarding pass for the afternoon flight, while many who were there earlier did not

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