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Old Feb 21, 2016, 12:41 pm
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exwannabe
 
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Originally Posted by zrs70
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I highly doubt it will come up. If it does, just tell him if you plan to go from C to B on your own.

In the future, you can schedule it so the B to C throwaway flight leaves the following day ( as you have I believe 24 hours for the connection).
Originally Posted by transportprof
4 hours is the maximum cnx time for a North American ticket before you get charged for a stop over, unless there is no flight leaving in that window.

24 hrs applies to inter-continental itineraries.
These replies are somewhere between confusing and bad advice.

. It is quite possible that the officer will ask the OP where he is going. OP should just say "B".

. It is almost certainly not the case that the officer would say "but you have a ticket to C". If he does, just tell the truth. Their job is not to enforce airline click through contracts.

The 24/4 hour issue is 100% irrelevant to customs.

[transprof, I realize your reply was just a correction of zrs70's.]
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