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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 9:53 am
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Originally Posted by steveholt
They couldn't just land in Terminal E or bus the passengers over to Terminal E to go through immigration in BOS?
It's been mentioned previously - I don't think you can mix passengers who have cleared customs with passengers who haven't cleared customs.

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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 10:41 am
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Originally Posted by Dog250
It's been mentioned previously - I don't think you can mix passengers who have cleared customs with passengers who haven't cleared customs.

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Who would have cleared customs on the DUB-BOS flight if there's no preclearance?
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 11:59 am
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Originally Posted by Barb111
so, are you confirming that pre-clearance will close even with inbound planes still arriving with passengers going to the US? And the next flight out to the US is two days later They dont fly every day
No one can say whether preclearance will close if your flight is late. It's going to close at some point and it will probably depend on how late you are and how many delayed passengers there are. But preclearance is irrelevant here really. You can miss any connection pre clearance or no preclearance. You'll be booked on the next available flight. That might or might not be the next day or next available flught. This is the problem with flying international and more so if you are booking a route that doesn't operate daily.
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 12:38 pm
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Raymoland, as I said, I am not worried about missing the connection. Plenty if time. My worry is preclearance closes 60 minutes after my plane from VIE is due to arrive.
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 12:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Barb111
Raymoland, as I said, I am not worried about missing the connection. Plenty if time. My worry is preclearance closes 60 minutes after my plane from VIE is due to arrive.
This is getting down to semantics. If you do not enter pre-clearance before it closes, you will "miss" your connection. The problem is that you cannot know in advance exactly when pre-clearance will close on your particular day of travel. Upon request from an airline, pre-clearance can remain open past its normal closing time. From the link you posted in Post #8:

"The airline may request operations to remain open past posted hours to accommodate late transfers. CBP frequently accommodates such requests, but does not control the operations of the other stakeholders. The vast majority of passengers who use preclearance do not miss their flights. The airlines have responsibility for late arriving connecting passengers."
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 4:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Zeeb
To each their own, as someone who doesn't have GE and who has to make a connection once in the US to get to my home airport I'm a huge fan of pre-clearance and think it's great to be able to take care of TSA and immigration at my first airport rather than having to do check-in and that country's security, take a flight, and then do immigration and re-do security halfway through my trip.
As someone that has GE but connections back in the states, I appreciate pre-clearance as well. Especially if arriving at EWR.
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Old Jan 7, 2024 | 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by steveholt
Who would have cleared customs on the DUB-BOS flight if there's no preclearance?
They'll be passengers who arrived at pre clearance when it was open - be it people who booked a direct DUB-BOS ticket or are connecting on an earlier flight.
I can't imagine a valid scenario where the whole plane would not get through pre clearance.

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