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Old May 15, 2022 | 4:19 pm
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prestonh
 
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Originally Posted by bradleykhofmann
A thought I have. I've been looking at rewards (or cash if cheap enough) to fly to Europe out of Canada. I only live about 3 hours from a Canadian airport. Is it allowable to drive to Canada with the purpose of flying from a Canadian airport? This would theoretically skip the return testing requirement as land or sea border requires no testing.

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yes, i used to do this often from YVR (i lived ~1 hr from there). even flying from YVR to US itineraries. I have nexus so that helps. the US land border agents sometimes look at you funny but i always say it was much cheaper and quicker (and it was particularly for intl flights).
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