Has anyone done a transfer from SFO international to domestic?
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You use the words "transfer" and "connection" in your post. Are you on one ticket ORD-SIN with a connection at SFO or are there two separate tickets, one from ORD-SFO and a second from ORD-SIN? Presuming one ticket, you have a connection.
1. No need to recheck luggage.
2. No need to reclear security.
Nonetheless, a very tight connection because a delay may mean that you misconnect and that means a 24-hour delay or an inconvenient rerouting, possibly in lousy seats.
If on two tickets, a delay may mean that you no show for your second ticket and, depending on its fare rules, may have to purchase a new ticket or at least pay significant penalties and also deal with a lousy reroute and so on.
1. No need to recheck luggage.
2. No need to reclear security.
Nonetheless, a very tight connection because a delay may mean that you misconnect and that means a 24-hour delay or an inconvenient rerouting, possibly in lousy seats.
If on two tickets, a delay may mean that you no show for your second ticket and, depending on its fare rules, may have to purchase a new ticket or at least pay significant penalties and also deal with a lousy reroute and so on.
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You use the words "transfer" and "connection" in your post. Are you on one ticket ORD-SIN with a connection at SFO or are there two separate tickets, one from ORD-SFO and a second from ORD-SIN? Presuming one ticket, you have a connection.
1. No need to recheck luggage.
2. No need to reclear security.
Nonetheless, a very tight connection because a delay may mean that you misconnect and that means a 24-hour delay or an inconvenient rerouting, possibly in lousy seats.
If on two tickets, a delay may mean that you no show for your second ticket and, depending on its fare rules, may have to purchase a new ticket or at least pay significant penalties and also deal with a lousy reroute and so on.
1. No need to recheck luggage.
2. No need to reclear security.
Nonetheless, a very tight connection because a delay may mean that you misconnect and that means a 24-hour delay or an inconvenient rerouting, possibly in lousy seats.
If on two tickets, a delay may mean that you no show for your second ticket and, depending on its fare rules, may have to purchase a new ticket or at least pay significant penalties and also deal with a lousy reroute and so on.
It is going to happen in next 2 weeks. Given possible unpredictable winter weather in ORD, I think I better give myself longer connection time.
Meanwhile, on a side note: if it is separate tickets on UA, the ground staff can still check the luggage through right? Just that the consequence of the miss connection will be different?
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12 hours - UA has 2 SFO-SIN flights per day, plus potentially 2 more if they were to move you to SQ (although that would be unlikely).
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Not much room for delays here. For me it would depend on how much hassle it would be to miss the connection and have to wait 12 hours for the next flight. Also, how much earlier is the previous ORD flight?
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Which security is faster?
After an international arrival with a domestic (UA) connection, does anyone have experience on whether it is faster to clear TSA upstairs at the international terminal or over at the domestic terminal.
Arrival will be around 9:00 p.m.
Arrival will be around 9:00 p.m.
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I've only cleared through the Flight Connections check point twice and on both occasions, I was the only person doing so (early afternoon arrival, both times with a good one hour wait for Immigration, so International Arrivals was not exactly empty). I find the checkpoints at domestic UA in T3 to be very variable, from speedy (the other day) to absolute hell, with seemingly little rhyme or reason.
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With you hitting the checkpoint after 9pm it's hard to predict. Sometimes the international checkpoint is hammered in the evening. Fortunately it's not hard to check it first. If you see a huge line, divert through the elevated corridor to T3 and use the domestic security lines there.
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Hi guys, my family and i are going to Singapore from Minneapolis so the route is MSP-SFO-HKG-SIN. MSP-SFO is on delta DL1568 landing in SFO around 8:30pm. SFO-HKG-SIN is on Singapore Airlines (SQ1) departing at 12 am. So there are 2 separate tickets. We also have some checked bags. Just wondering if thats enough time to pick up our bags at the baggage claim area and check in to Singapore Airlines? Also where is the baggage claim area located if we're landing at Terminal 1 (DL1568), and also whats the quickest way to get to the Singapore check in counter (at the International terminal?)to check our bags back in? Thanks.
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With you hitting the checkpoint after 9pm it's hard to predict. Sometimes the international checkpoint is hammered in the evening. Fortunately it's not hard to check it first. If you see a huge line, divert through the elevated corridor to T3 and use the domestic security lines there.
The only reason I'd suggest using Intl at that time of night is if you're headed to the Polaris lounge. The checkpoint in T3 nearest to international will be closed by then, so it'll be a bit of a hike to go over to the next one and then all the way back.
(And for those not aware, what Americans call "flip-flips", we Australians call "thongs". I did say it was when the flights to the Pacific departed... )
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At that time I wouldn't even bother checking International. It's right before the Asia/Pacific flight times, and the odds of it being faster than domestic is low. What's more, it's that time of day when the checkpoint seems to be filled with people that have never actually been to an airport before, and are surprised by the fact they can't take their full-sized tube of toothpaste or bottle of chicken soup with them onto the plane, or that they need to take their thongs off before going into the x-ray!
The only reason I'd suggest using Intl at that time of night is if you're headed to the Polaris lounge. The checkpoint in T3 nearest to international will be closed by then, so it'll be a bit of a hike to go over to the next one and then all the way back.
The only reason I'd suggest using Intl at that time of night is if you're headed to the Polaris lounge. The checkpoint in T3 nearest to international will be closed by then, so it'll be a bit of a hike to go over to the next one and then all the way back.
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From international arrivals (A or G) you stay on the lower level on the walk to T3 - left out of the glass doors from the arrivals area, along the pathway past baggage re-check, then right to turn towards T3. To get to International Departures you need turn left rather than right, and then go up the escalator/elevator, then along a little bit to get to Intl G security, then back down the escalator/elevator if/when the line is too long. It's not a huge detour, but it is a detour.
The only way you'd be walking through the international departure area is if you took the wrong exit from arrivals and went out the "Arrivals" door rather than the "Connections" door, which leads to a longer path, but one that does indeed involve going past the departures area (and forces you to do the up a level/back down a level thing). Plus if they had bags then this route will fail badly.
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Thanks; I stand corrected. That seems so obvious now that you mention it. I live here, and Ive never had occasion to connect from international to domestic at SFO.
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Hi guys, my family and i are going to Singapore from Minneapolis so the route is MSP-SFO-HKG-SIN. MSP-SFO is on delta DL1568 landing in SFO around 8:30pm. SFO-HKG-SIN is on Singapore Airlines (SQ1) departing at 12 am. So there are 2 separate tickets. We also have some checked bags. Just wondering if thats enough time to pick up our bags at the baggage claim area and check in to Singapore Airlines?
The risk is, what if your arriving flight is over 2 hours late. Then you don't have time to complete the connection, and because it's not on a single ticket the airlines have no responsibility to pay for changes. At that point you've missed your flight, and the cost of making changes in on you.
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