No more transit security at Narita from US?
Jun 1, 2019, 11:24 pm
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No more transit security at Narita from US?
I flew in on NH 1 from IAD - upon arrival following the signs for transit passengers immediately dumped us out into the main terminal area - no trek to security and back. I found some threads indicating there was a trial for this back in April - is this now standard operating procedure for all flights from the US?
Jun 2, 2019, 1:02 am
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I have not seen an announcement that it has become permanent yet. How long was the trial period meant to be?
Jun 2, 2019, 5:30 am
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It started on 13 May for passengers arriving on 17 flights operated by 8 airlines (JL, NH, DL, UA, AA, HA, SQ, KE). It will be gradually extended to cover all 50 or so flights arriving from the US.
Also discussed in the Japan forum:
No more transfer security at NRT for pax ex-US connecting to international flights
Also discussed in the Japan forum:
No more transfer security at NRT for pax ex-US connecting to international flights
Oct 4, 2019, 1:02 pm
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Any update on this? Anyone have a sense of whether the same routes from the US continue to be able to avoid security for transit pax or if the routes have been expanded/changed?
Oct 4, 2019, 4:05 pm
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I recall seeing somewhere that they had completely eliminated it for flights inbound from the United States - but can't recall where I saw that.
Oct 4, 2019, 4:12 pm
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Oct 5, 2019, 8:20 am
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IAD-NRT (NH1). I’ve seen the report up thread for no security on this route, but have no sense if that’s the new norm.
Oct 7, 2019, 7:40 am
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I took UA803 IAD-NRT a week ago and no transit security; same thing for UA 837 SFO-NRT previously. It looks like NH1 consistently gets a proper gate rather than bus, so I would expect the same for it.
Nov 14, 2019, 12:57 pm
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Any reports if NH 5 from LAX has had no transit security? Taking that flight early in December. No security would be awesome!
Nov 15, 2019, 7:27 am
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