Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
None of this article makes any sense. A "security check" is when they make sure you are not carrying weapons. Are they proposing that flights from India will land in the domestic airside area of US airports, so that passengers can go to their connecting flights without further security (x-ray/body scans/etc)?
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Agree, this article makes no sense. International arrivals into the US would need to undergo immigration at a minimum, and also customs unless the final destination airport also had customs facilities (which would then require the international bags to be segregated upon arrival at the first US location, and then be kept separated until the final destination), which is simply not happening. And if you clear customs upon arrival at the first location, then security check would be required since you've had access to checked bags.
Originally Posted by
dls25
OSS is not about preclearance.
Basically, US-India-Other countries traffic will not have to re-clear security during their transit in India.
It is pretty easy to implement - when one gets off the plane, those with international connections go up to the boarding lounge and people entering the county follow the normal route to immigration.
As Indian airports are general pretty anal about ITI transit I'm not quite sure this will ever be seriously considered.
If this is truly about ITI in India, that is totally different than what the article is talking about. Many countries have ITI, I suppose that is certainly feasible at BOM or DEL.