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Old Oct 30, 2014 | 10:50 pm
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Originally Posted by winnipegrev
My memory may be off but I seem to avoid the document check flying internationally by reprinting my boarding pass at the machine. Before I can reprint, it has me insert my passport. If it is the same for transborder I don't know - I don't fly it enough to notice a pattern without trying.

It is the same. But only if it works. AC IT problem with NEXUS # for some of us, thus prompting the dreaded doc check at check-in where agent has to override info. Whatever.

Based on last week's experiment of YYZ-YVR-HNL and back, GA's definitely check docs and since my ticket had NEXUS on it, that became the ID for check-in and gate check prior to boarding. The reader will handle either passports or NEXUS, and given my regular travel to the U.S., it seems the NEXUS card is now the only document I use at all stages, and it works.
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