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I'm afraid anyone waiting for OSS to take effect at any UK airport - not just LHR - will have to be extremely patient!

The current secondary screening at LHR is not the choice of the airport - if they could get away with employing less people and charging the same transit fees they would - but that of the UK Government which regards its security processes as more stringent than anywhere else in the world, and therefore there is absolutely no trust of incoming passengers who have originated in a country other than the UK. This includes our partners in the Common Travel Area, The Republic of Ireland. Anyone transferring from a non-UK airport will have to pass through security, a situation that is unlikely to ever change.

I'm coming in from TPA tomorrow and have OSS on my BP, so I'll see what happens. I'd contemplated bringing in some duty-free, but it sounds like OSS is still hit or miss and I don't want to check my bag for the last segment. I'll report on the outcome.

As an aside, for the first time in a while I didn't get TSA pre on my TPA-YYZ BP. Could that be a consequence of flying with a non-status spouse?

Maybe you're booking, checking in, un checking in, and then cancelling flights left right Centre...

OSS can't work in YYZ until they segregate passengers coming from compliant countries.

Right now, everyone is funneled into the same area.

I am going from DFW to YOW via YYZ tomorrow.

I have OS printed on my YYZ-YOW boarding pass (and TSA precheck on the DFW to YYZ boarding pass).

I have a nexus card. No checked bags.

So how will the OSS impact me - I presume that I still have to go through the security check-point at YYZ?

It will not impact you. You will still have to go through security in YYZ.

Can confirm that OSS worked on both CDG YYZ YVR and FRA YYC YVR this month (for baggage only)

Where is the new corridor to bypass security at YYZ? There is no announcement on the community portal...

http://apps.torontopearson.com/torontopearsoncommunity/

Sorry I thought this meant for both baggage and persons. I guess the OSS initiative is people only and clearing bags straight through is another effort?

Sorry about the confusion. OSS is for both passengers and baggage. So far from multiple FTers, baggage has only been checked through; connecting passengers at YYZ still have to exit the secure area and go through security on floor 2. I was wondering, since you said that OSS did work on your YYZ segment, where the separate airside corridor is located (if there is one)....

OSS is for passengers (one security checkpoint required for eligible INTL/TB-DOM/INTL itineraries).

ITD is for baggage (where you don't have to pickup your bag at Customs and redrop it off for your connection for eligible INTL/TB-DOM connection flights).

Bottom line: OSS at this point is just a notation on the boarding pass. Nothing more.

Its just a big tease right now!

Works great for bags, love it

BUT for people, same old wasted, useless, silly routine

YVR doesn't seem to segregate passengers, and I was permitted to bypass security, on a US-YVR-Int'l itinerary. There was an airport employee checking BPs after the transfer immigration, who seemed to be responsible for directing people to security if needed. But it seems int'l passengers from elsewhere would have been in the same area, and then put through security after immigration.