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Dec 6, 2006 | 12:19 pm

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Originally Posted by TravellingMan

I just came back from my OTP-AMS-YYZ and connected with my existing journey of YYZ-MSP-DEN. Found that the departure from AMS for YYZ was a lot more efficient without having to go through 10 mins of dumb questioning (these days I start with you want the questions or the answers and they let me go in a minute), seizing my empty plastic bottle, going though a mandatory secondary bag check and the other usual nonsense for flights to US.

It seems to be a lot better to just fly into Canada and then pick up a flight into the US. Any experiences?

By "mandatory second bag check," do you mean the TSA pawing through your checked bags again? They do that on flights from Canada, too. Even though you've cleared ICE in YYZ, your connecting flight from MSP to DEN would see your checked bags go through the same TSA BS.

Also, Canada has the liquids ban as well, so nothing gained there.

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