Originally Posted by
seawolf
Was this USA connections or did you go landside?
Couple of weeks ago on a Friday afternoon, CBP was busy processing connections that they even held up Global Entry/NEXUS. Regular processing from landside was >45 minutes.
USA connections. Didn't go landside.
Originally Posted by
zkzkz
That sounds very unusual. I've never seen more than 3-4 people head for US connections off a European flight. Maybe if I hung around there would be 10-15 people total on the whole plane. I always wondered if that meant it was susceptible to backing up if there was a sudden burst of connecting passengers arriving since it didn't look like there was much capacity at that point.
I think AC has been pushing these flights to Americans. They were pulling 10+ people for each super late flight.
I will note the on the outbound though YUL there was also major congestion going through USA-international connections. Not quite as bad, but a good 30min wait or so. Seems like AC may be overloading an airport not built for international connections.