Originally Posted by
ss1710
Few quick questions if you don't mind as I'll be travelling EY103 in a few days:
When you say security prior to US preclearance do you mean the second round of security immediately before immigration?
Did you see anyone getting Y - J upgrades here or at the gate?
and about how long before the flight did you leave for the preclearance facility?
Yes, the second round of security clearance just before going to immigration was where they gave the boarding pass. The team at the First Class Lounge instructed me to leave the lounge at the boarding time listed on the boarding pass. It certainly helps having elite status or an outright business/first class ticket, because the queue at the second round of security was extremely long (probably about 300 people in that line, and about 10 in the elite line.) I did not see anyone at the gate get any upgrades; basically I just scanned my own boarding pass at a scanner just before the gate, and proceeded to the plane. Our flight left about 75 minutes late due to economy passengers still processing US customs.