Originally Posted by
cure
I was making a convoluted flight from Paris to Toronto through Copenhagen and Washington (Dulles), travelling on a Canadian passport. In Paris SAS asked me for a US address.
Two things:
a) we are talking about the French here. Is it anything at CDG that works according to common practise? How much trouble do employees at CDG make just for the sake of it?
b) All Canadians I know (quite a few actually) will do ANYTHING to avoid travelling through US to get to Canada. LHR is considered a peaceful heaven for them if they compare that to US - especially on a CA passport.
Joke asides, unfortunately there are quite a few reports from other airports as well, where SAS staff (and other airlines staff) requires an address because they are not fully trained. They are just briefed prior to checkin that the airline may get kicked out of US if there are too many errors or addresses missing in the APIS report.
It is mainly a problem for Europeean airlines and contracted staff where US carriers uses code shares.