Originally Posted by
henry999
It was not a 'contract'. It was more like a Memorandum of Understanding, which was to lead to a 12-18 month discussion period about the possibility of doing it.
The press release announcing the signing of the agreement last November
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nationa...rance-facility
mentions that in 2015 there were more than 1700 flights from ARN to the US, carrying almost 400 000 pax.
Do you have a link or reference for that?
Swedavia and the US can't do squat on this unless and until the Swedish government passes a bill in the Riksdag/parliament to allow for this. I doubt such bill would have the same Swedish support today as it would have had on November 4, 2016. I hope the Swedish parliament never passes a bill allowing the presence of passenger-facing US CBP operations on Swedish soil, and I say that as an American. I hope the Finnish government ends up being opposed to this kind of arrangement too.
Swedavia says this will cost around 50 million euros for ARN. That's just to get it started. Someone is going to end up paying for that for ARN -- but it won't be the US taxpayers who already have a CBP employment staffing/hiring/retention problem. Don't be surprised if they try to hike your costs to travel -- even on award tickets -- due to this.