Originally Posted by
randyj
My Chinese wife and daughter will arrive from Shanghai (United LAX Terminal 7) and then connect to United flight to Houston (also Terminal 7). United has told me that passengers arriving after 6 pm clear customs and claim baggage at TBIT, after which they carry their baggage back for connecting flights and security. This seems outrageously inconvenient. Can anyone shed light on the drill for this?
Flight aware shows UA199 has arrived before 6PM at Terminal 7 everyday in the 2+ weeks or so.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL199/history
In the unlikely event that the flight is really delayed, it will proceed to TBIT and use the immigration and custom facilities over there. There is a luggage re-check station right outside customs before leaving the secured area. Your wife can re-check the bags there as long as it is tagged to IAH properly when she checked in at PVG. The walk to T7 from TBIT is long but not that bad. Read the wikipost as previously suggested.