One Stop Security
Mar 29, 2017 | 4:23 pm
#121
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: YYC
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And to clarify OSS is not located where the posters right above indicate. It is at the top of the escalators and to the left; entered from the main hall. If you go into the area with the escalators you have gone too far. If you go down the escalators and through the doors and see Nexus machines you have really gone too far.
Apr 10, 2017 | 1:30 pm
#122
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 2,360
What doess OSS mean on boarding pass?
I have an international flight tomorrow on Air Canada. My flight originates in the U.S. and has a connection in Toronto to a foreign destination.
I have two boarding passes - one is for my U.S. to Toronto portion of the trip and the second boarding pass is from Toronto to the foreign destination.
My boarding pass for the U.S. portion of the trip is marked with TSA Pre check.
My question is related to the second boarding pass. In the place on the boarding pass where the TSA would be shown, instead there are three letters -
OSS.
Does anyone have a clue what the OSS designation represents?
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I have two boarding passes - one is for my U.S. to Toronto portion of the trip and the second boarding pass is from Toronto to the foreign destination.
My boarding pass for the U.S. portion of the trip is marked with TSA Pre check.
My question is related to the second boarding pass. In the place on the boarding pass where the TSA would be shown, instead there are three letters -
OSS.
Does anyone have a clue what the OSS designation represents?
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Apr 10, 2017 | 1:32 pm
#123
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: YVR
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Posts: 3,796
It stands for One Stop Security and it means you won't have to go through transit security for your connecting flight.
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
Apr 10, 2017 | 1:34 pm
#124
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: YYC
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One Stop Security.
It it should mean you can pass through customs at the top of the escalators in YYZ (small room to the left 20-30m before escalators).
However i I believe that it is currently only implemented for pax traveling to Canadian destinations from the USA. Meaning you are not eligible.
There is a big thread about it here somewhere which my phone is ill equipped to search for and link!
It it should mean you can pass through customs at the top of the escalators in YYZ (small room to the left 20-30m before escalators).
However i I believe that it is currently only implemented for pax traveling to Canadian destinations from the USA. Meaning you are not eligible.
There is a big thread about it here somewhere which my phone is ill equipped to search for and link!
Apr 10, 2017 | 1:37 pm
#125
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 2,360
It stands for One Stop Security and it means you won't have to go through transit security for your connecting flight.
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
Such excellence - in less than three minutes I received an answer to my question.
More impressive is the fact that the information is correct and that the information was accompanied by an official attachment that explains the meaning of OSS.
Thank you very much.
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Apr 10, 2017 | 1:41 pm
#126
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: YYZ
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Apr 10, 2017 | 1:46 pm
#127
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Location: YVR
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You are welcome although I will add the caveat that having "OSS" much like "TSA Pre" printed on the boarding pass does not guarantee that OSS will be active for the particular times and flights you are traveling on.
Apr 10, 2017 | 1:57 pm
#128
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: YOW
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I have had OSS on many, many of my boarding passes as I live in YOW and almost always have to connect to get there.
I have NEVER (ie not even once!) seen any benefit from OSS. I ALWAYS have to go though security again.
A while ago i asked several employees in YYZ (Air Canada, YYZ Airport and CBA) and nobody even knew what OSS was.
So, I think its premature to say you wont have to go through transit security.
Maybe you wont have to collect your bags (I usually carry my bag so I dont know).
Please report back how it goes.
Oh- this has been discussed in detail:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...-security.html
I have NEVER (ie not even once!) seen any benefit from OSS. I ALWAYS have to go though security again.
A while ago i asked several employees in YYZ (Air Canada, YYZ Airport and CBA) and nobody even knew what OSS was.
So, I think its premature to say you wont have to go through transit security.
Maybe you wont have to collect your bags (I usually carry my bag so I dont know).
Please report back how it goes.
Oh- this has been discussed in detail:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...-security.html
Apr 10, 2017 | 3:08 pm
#129
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It stands for One Stop Security and it means you won't have to go through transit security for your connecting flight.
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1036799&tp=1
Only domestic or US connections required anything.
Apr 10, 2017 | 3:54 pm
#130
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(Sorry...History buff here)
Apr 10, 2017 | 4:01 pm
#131
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
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I have had OSS on many, many of my boarding passes as I live in YOW and almost always have to connect to get there.
I have NEVER (ie not even once!) seen any benefit from OSS. I ALWAYS have to go though security again.
A while ago i asked several employees in YYZ (Air Canada, YYZ Airport and CBA) and nobody even knew what OSS was.
So, I think its premature to say you wont have to go through transit security.
Maybe you wont have to collect your bags (I usually carry my bag so I dont know).
Please report back how it goes.
Oh- this has been discussed in detail:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...-security.html
I have NEVER (ie not even once!) seen any benefit from OSS. I ALWAYS have to go though security again.
A while ago i asked several employees in YYZ (Air Canada, YYZ Airport and CBA) and nobody even knew what OSS was.
So, I think its premature to say you wont have to go through transit security.
Maybe you wont have to collect your bags (I usually carry my bag so I dont know).
Please report back how it goes.
Oh- this has been discussed in detail:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...-security.html
The only problem is that if your flight doesn't dump you in to the main arrival hallway where the escalators go down to customs (and where the secure OSS corridor runs) and instead dumps you in to that little side hallway with the single escalator down to customs then you miss the secure corridor and end up going through the main customs hall and then back landside. Which is what happened to me last week when connecting back US - YYZ - YOW.
Apr 10, 2017 | 7:13 pm
#132
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: YYJ
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We were late arriving and only had 45 minutes to make the connection so I was a bit concerned. We made it to the gate just as they were calling zone 1.
Apr 10, 2017 | 7:23 pm
#133
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I had the pleasure of going MCO-YUL-YVR last week and it was a thing of beauty. Hard left as we entered customs, showed our connecting boarding pass as we were back airside in less then 20 meters with no further security check.
We were late arriving and only had 45 minutes to make the connection so I was a bit concerned. We made it to the gate just as they were calling zone 1.
We were late arriving and only had 45 minutes to make the connection so I was a bit concerned. We made it to the gate just as they were calling zone 1.
Apr 10, 2017 | 7:38 pm
#134
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Yes, it has, and as I mentioned in that thread OSS is in effect at YYZ, at least for the time being.
The only problem is that if your flight doesn't dump you in to the main arrival hallway where the escalators go down to customs (and where the secure OSS corridor runs) and instead dumps you in to that little side hallway with the single escalator down to customs then you miss the secure corridor and end up going through the main customs hall and then back landside. Which is what happened to me last week when connecting back US - YYZ - YOW.
The only problem is that if your flight doesn't dump you in to the main arrival hallway where the escalators go down to customs (and where the secure OSS corridor runs) and instead dumps you in to that little side hallway with the single escalator down to customs then you miss the secure corridor and end up going through the main customs hall and then back landside. Which is what happened to me last week when connecting back US - YYZ - YOW.