Originally Posted by
JDiver
If the negotiations conclude as hoped, it eliminates the T3 <—-> T-5 trek. Let us hope ORD becomes the third Airport to offer ITI baggage through-checking (as currently offered in DFW, MIA) so AA, AY, BA, CX, IB, QR and other interline partners could offer ITI from Asia, Europe or Middle East onward to S. America, etc. (Even better would be airside flight connections separate from immigration, but that almost seems too much to hope, like AA declining to through check on separate ticketing.)
Airport construction being what it is, 2030?
Originally Posted by
Gerbs
Yes, surely this could be considered if aspiring to be a truly global hub. It would be nice not to have to warn my unsuspecting Mexico-bound EU colleagues to avoid routings via the US.
Originally Posted by
atsak
I'm fairly certain your government would not permit a flight connection without immigration; I've never transited anywhere that didn't have at least a cursory immigration check in transit; and we don't have it anywhere up here either (though it's pretty much a wave and welcome to Canada type of check). They could setup a dedicated flight connections immigration check though, that seems to help a lot.
This would be more trouble than its worth as you would need to define an entire sterile area of the airport to prevent passengers from "transiting" only to exit the terminal and not pass through immigration to enter the country. That obviously reduces the utility of those gates since they have a dedicated use. Since the US does not perform exit immigration as other countries do, I'm not sure there is any possibility beyond bags only absent a significant change in the laws/procedures governing international travel originating in the US.