One Stop Security
Apr 22, 2019, 4:19 pm
#406
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: Air Canada Elite, Continental Gold, IC Royal Ambassador, SPG Gold
Posts: 704
My last two times through, they would not let me through to domestic and forced me to re-clear.
Apr 22, 2019, 6:19 pm
#407
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 39
No issue at YUL yesterday, connecting from LAX on to YOW. As noted above by Cozmo456, for domestic connections you get directed down a long narrow hall and come out by gate 51. If your connection is to another international flight, you exit directly into that section of the terminal. But no need to re-clear security in either instance.
Apr 22, 2019, 7:35 pm
#409
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
Programs: AC SE*MM
Posts: 1,822
If you needed to re-clear you had bags on a non AC to AC connection or you were coming from a non OSS location.
Apr 24, 2019, 7:58 am
#410
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC E50K
Posts: 132
I guess you were too tired to notice. When you go down the stairs in to the main customs hall you need to keep left and left again by where the elevators are to get to the OSS domestic connections area, which bypasses having to clear security. Usually there is someone hollering about "domestic connections this way" but if it was pretty dead then maybe not.
May 10, 2019, 8:59 am
#411
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC E50K
Posts: 132
The hardest part about the whole experience at YUL is the signs are off to the left of the escalator when you enter the customs hall so if look straight or right you’ll probably end up going through the regular arrivals. My only other complaint is it felt like they ask to see a boarding pass every 100m but that still beats taking a bus!
May 10, 2019, 2:40 pm
#412
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: I'm From Here
Programs: AC*SE & MM/*Wood Gold/HHonors Diamond/Marriott Silver/AirMiles Gold
Posts: 4,565
Passed through YUL this morning and OSS is a lot easier than YYZ.
The hardest part about the whole experience at YUL is the signs are off to the left of the escalator when you enter the customs hall so if look straight or right you’ll probably end up going through the regular arrivals. My only other complaint is it felt like they ask to see a boarding pass every 100m but that still beats taking a bus!
May 10, 2019, 7:21 pm
#413
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: YYC
Programs: AC SE 1MM, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 3,396
Jul 6, 2019, 4:39 pm
#414
Moderator, Air Canada; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: YYC
Programs: AC SE MM, FB Plat, WS Plat, BA Silver, DL GM, Marriott Plat, Hilton Gold, Accor Silver
Posts: 16,744
Flying ARN-BRU-YUL-YYC on Monday. A post by @YVRtoYYZ in the other OSS thread on the Canada forum suggests it's possible to get OSS on an itinerary like that with another carrier on the first leg, but in practice, anything special needed to achieve it? i.e. if I get BPs from SK, will they have ITD OSS on them for the connection at YUL? Or would I need to get new BPs from AC, either at BRU or via OLCI?
AC app says I won't need to clear security in YUL, but we all know how reliable it is.
AC app says I won't need to clear security in YUL, but we all know how reliable it is.
Jul 6, 2019, 9:21 pm
#415
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: YUL
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 446
Flying ARN-BRU-YUL-YYC on Monday. A post by @YVRtoYYZ in the other OSS thread on the Canada forum suggests it's possible to get OSS on an itinerary like that with another carrier on the first leg, but in practice, anything special needed to achieve it? i.e. if I get BPs from SK, will they have ITD OSS on them for the connection at YUL? Or would I need to get new BPs from AC, either at BRU or via OLCI?
AC app says I won't need to clear security in YUL, but we all know how reliable it is.
AC app says I won't need to clear security in YUL, but we all know how reliable it is.
You'll be fine.
Jul 7, 2019, 1:48 am
#416
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
Programs: AC SE*MM
Posts: 1,822
The important info will be the barcode on your BP for the YUL-YYC segment, which will be scanned numerous times. Whether OSS or ITD appears on them doesn't change anything. I've scanned AI, MH, ME and SU printed boarding passes and all have come back as good for ITD and none displayed anything that's not usually there.
You'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
And if you really want an AC BP and don’t want to find one in BRU just enter BRU as your departure point and re check in on the AC app and you’ll get an electronic one on your phone with a nice little ITD OSS on it and the proper zone number too.
Jul 7, 2019, 5:10 pm
#418
Join Date: Jan 2001
Programs: AC SEMM
Posts: 724
Passed through YUL this morning and OSS is a lot easier than YYZ.
The hardest part about the whole experience at YUL is the signs are off to the left of the escalator when you enter the customs hall so if look straight or right you’ll probably end up going through the regular arrivals. My only other complaint is it felt like they ask to see a boarding pass every 100m but that still beats taking a bus!
Jul 7, 2019, 5:11 pm
#419
Join Date: May 2016
Location: YUL
Programs: Aeroplan, NEXUS
Posts: 433
Nope. In fact, one has to make a U-turn after making the first set of escalators. Or follow the purple connections signs that veers out of the main immigration hall...?
Jul 7, 2019, 5:56 pm
#420
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: YYC
Programs: AC SE 1MM, Marriott Ambassador
Posts: 3,396
Yep. It is a 180 degree turn from the first stairs/escalators. If you enter the regular line for Nexus machines you have gone too far. It is actually underneath the entry corridor (literally underneath where you are if you stand at the top of the escalators). I never found it to be well signed — it took me a couple tries too.