Transiting IAD
Jan 17, 2010 | 5:19 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Programs: Velocity Platinum, UA MM
Posts: 557
Transiting IAD
Can anyone help with the following:
LHR - IAD arriving at 3.03pm on UA919 transiting to UA951 to LAS departing at 5.05pm.
Is the 2 hour transit time from international to domestic easily achievable for someone who is not all that travel-savvy?
LHR - IAD arriving at 3.03pm on UA919 transiting to UA951 to LAS departing at 5.05pm.
Is the 2 hour transit time from international to domestic easily achievable for someone who is not all that travel-savvy?
Jan 17, 2010 | 5:31 pm
#2
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: NorCal - Platinum 2.6MM
Posts: 2,152
Should be ok if the flight is on time. At IAD United has customs and immigration in the same building ("midfield terminal") as domestic departures for transit pax, so you don't have to ride the time-sucking mobile lounges. Just be sure to follow the sign for domestic connections rather than DC arrivals when deplaning (and there are often UA personnel shouting this same direction), or you're diverted away from the midfield customs where you want to be. C&I can be slow for non-US citizens at IAD, but of course that can be true at any US port of entry.
Jan 17, 2010 | 6:18 pm
#3
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: YGK
Posts: 228
Did a similar 2 hour connection in December. It took just over an hour to get through immigration (non-US citizen line), customs, and security, including a brief detour through secondary screening.