Changing YYZ terminals after security?
Aug 12, 2017, 7:16 am
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Changing YYZ terminals after security?
Will be connecting to a T3 international flight in YYZ after arriving in T1 on a domestic AC flight. FWIW, the reservations and airlines are totally different.
If I do not check bags, is it possible to switch terminals and connect directly to the T3 flight without exiting and re entering security?
If I do not check bags, is it possible to switch terminals and connect directly to the T3 flight without exiting and re entering security?
Aug 12, 2017, 8:04 am
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I'm not 100% in agreement. 99.99% yes, but there is one other VERY VERY remote possibility. The BMW service that no one really knows truly how people are selected. There is a slight chance that if you were selected for the service they could take you to T3, the only thing is that in the case of the OP, how would AC know in advance that you were connecting to a different airline. Normally (haven't heard of any examples otherwise) the car service is for domestic-international connections within T1.
Aug 12, 2017, 8:16 am
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OP - there is no publicly available landside connection or service that allows travellers to freely go between T1 to T3 or T3 to T1 traveling on any airline to any airline in their respective terminals. You have to go ground side using the terminal link train service.
The ground side terminal link service is 24/7 although during slow hours only one of the two trains are running.
The ground side terminal link service is 24/7 although during slow hours only one of the two trains are running.
Last edited by yyznomad; Aug 12, 2017 at 8:29 am
Aug 12, 2017, 2:39 pm
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I'm not 100% in agreement. 99.99% yes, but there is one other VERY VERY remote possibility. The BMW service that no one really knows truly how people are selected. There is a slight chance that if you were selected for the service they could take you to T3, the only thing is that in the case of the OP, how would AC know in advance that you were connecting to a different airline. Normally (haven't heard of any examples otherwise) the car service is for domestic-international connections within T1.
Aug 12, 2017, 5:59 pm
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Come on Adam, aim high :-)
Aug 12, 2017, 6:55 pm
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Aug 13, 2017, 5:16 am
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I'm not 100% in agreement. 99.99% yes, but there is one other VERY VERY remote possibility. The BMW service that no one really knows truly how people are selected. There is a slight chance that if you were selected for the service they could take you to T3, the only thing is that in the case of the OP, how would AC know in advance that you were connecting to a different airline. Normally (haven't heard of any examples otherwise) the car service is for domestic-international connections within T1.
Aug 13, 2017, 1:21 pm
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Although nothing is public, the service selection includes full knowledge of the itinerary and would only pick up someone connecting to an international (AC) flight in T1. It is not a lottery where passengers are selected from a random draw and greeted with a limo asking them where they might want to be driven. Nice thought but I think we can firmly round that 99.99 to 100%.
Aug 13, 2017, 2:19 pm
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Aug 13, 2017, 2:24 pm
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Considering my AC ticket is in A class, I have no status on AC (or any *A carrier), and the terminal 3 airline is a OW airline, I would lean toward 100% as well 
I guess if I manage to befriend an AC VIP who is connecting through to T3 on the first flight, and s/he explains my situation to ground staff and asks them to let me tag along, then perhaps I could.
...aaand back to that winning the lottery comparison :-D
I guess if I manage to befriend an AC VIP who is connecting through to T3 on the first flight, and s/he explains my situation to ground staff and asks them to let me tag along, then perhaps I could.
...aaand back to that winning the lottery comparison :-D