Originally Posted by
adam.smith
There is actually some value to it though. When I went in January, they had a separate line at customs dedicated solely to Canadians. No waiting whatsoever. Walk up, check your passport, pay the fee, done. Seeing as how I've frequently spent well over an hour and sometimes more than two in line at customs in BOG, I didn't mind. Then again, I was on business and the company was paying the tax, so it didn't cost me anything.
I think I mentioned that on the original thread I posted about the topic. I got the skip the line at BOG as well, but I also walk quickly through the airport and I was in J so I would've been one of the first there after flying IAH-BOG overnight anyway.
I do wanna ask though, were you on the YYZ-BOG flight? I'll be on that in Y in May and I wanna know how bad the line is. When at least 50% of the people need to go over there, I really wonder. She processed me, but the dumb part is then they sent me over to the regular line agents as well, I skipped the line, but why can't she just do the whole thing? I would hope they open up more than 1-2 desks as well after the YYZ arrival cuz I think it'll be a mess.
Also I'm waiting to fly into MDE the next time and see if they catch it. I'm assuming they will, but since there's no direct Canada-MDE flights I wonder how many people they actually get. So the next time I go PTY-MDE I'm gonna see what happens, the other thing is, no one checks for your PLATINUM receipt on the way out of the country and I was told you don't need to keep it, so if inbound customs forgets, then you're off scot free.