Originally Posted by emcampbe

Thanks.

Turns out it wasn't so close. While the departure did leave 2 hours late (and the arrival time always showed it would be 2 hours late), we ended up arriving only 1 hour behind schedule. It took about 25 minutes to get through transit security (using *G line) and back into the departures area, plus my connection was delayed a half hour anyway.

So after getting through, I still had 2 hours until departure time - I simply ignored the "go to gate" sign on the departure board, and headed to the CIP lounge for a bit since even the scheduled departure time was still another hour and a half.

On the other hand, getting to the transit area was thoroughly confusing and needs way better signage. There seems to be two different areas one can go through - I waited in line in the first (right next to where immigration is) since I didn't know there was another one - then at the front told I was told for YYZ, I had to keep walking.