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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 5:17 am
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Originally Posted by Diplomatico
My last time through IAD on an arriving international flight was last month and it wasn't immigration/customs that took a long time....it was going back through IAD security. That was 40 mins or so. I'd be uneasy with just 1h17m to get to the connecting flight. (There are a couple of threads that discuss the mess that are IAD security lines.)
Was that a UA-UA connection? It's been a while since I've entered via IAD, but I didn't remember security from immigration being that bad when I came in on UA & went on to UA. But then again it's been a while.

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