truthfully i don't enter canada enough to make it worthwhile (once a year or less)...but i'll admit that when standing in that long, long line, it's something that crosses my mind. ;)

Just used it at SEA for the first time since my interview. Was through immigration ~2 minutes counting the time to find the machines (they're ALL the way in the corner, and not well marked, its close to the Crew Lines).

Went through pretty smoothly, but I think I should have chosen "NO" on flight info; It came in on UA 867 NRT-SEA, with originating travel in Taipei (which was rightish, but the routing was TPE-NRT-SEA(-PDX)).

Does anyone know if the origin line was for the origin of the flight, or origin of travel; I was asked by a customs agent on my way out if I was in Japan, and I told them that I had transited, but never crossed immigration or customs and was airside for my entire layover. Searching through the thread, but didn't find anything clear.

EDIT: It is kinda weird I didn't get a SEA stamp, I guess I'm going to have to get used to not getting stamps for US entry anymore. Can't decide if thats a :-) or a :-(

The origin is the origin of the flight.

Looks like GE got a spiffy website.. http://www.globalentry.gov/index.html

http://www.globalentry.gov/images/photo-home.jpg

Perhaps they are trying harder to market the program?

Actually, for the past few trips, it's been showing the location from which I started my journey.

For example, coming into ATL on KL621 from AMS, it will show me having arrived from GVA on KL621.

(I think that the question was different on the I94W, which asked for the city where you boarded. Here, IIRC, it's the departure city.)

Cheers,

GenevaFlyer

Yesterday I saw a full page ad for GE in the Continental in flight magazine. The airline also has a few blurbs about it in the back of the magazine discussing customs/entry procedures.

There is one in the December issue of the United mag as well.

Saw an ad in the Atlantic Monthly recently, too. Cool to see GE doing well, but hoping it doesn't catch on too much.

Could it be because both your flight segments were all on the same KL621 number? I've only had the kiosk option of choosing the origin of the flight segment I arrived on, not the origin of my travel (which was a segment on a different flight number).

I'd be happy to see it catch on so long as it increases the facilities commensurately. It's a reasonable concern, however, that the kiosk numbers will remain flat while members go up. That's not good.

Think of the 70/30 rule when it comes to those kiosks. If all the kiosks are operational, those lines will never be like the size of the regular lines.

I have never heard about this being a benefit. In my experience, the gate security at MUC (and most of Europe for that matter) is universal, not selective - meaning everyone goes down the chute. This is different at LHR (or it used to be - haven't been there in a year or so) where the gate check is random, and there the premium pax always seem to get a pass.

I would say you got lucky, and someone was over interpreting GE.

I agree with you about European airport security in general. That is why I posted on the thread. What I found remarkable is it happened three times over a 6 month period.

I will probably transit through MUC next year and I will see what happens then.

Location of GOES interview
 

I enrolled for GOES this morning and am wondering is the interview conducted at a specific airport or will it be conducted at mine (GRR), which is an int'l airport and has customs/immigration capability. Hope I dont have to travel to one of the 20 that have GOES. It wasnt spelled out clearly when I was doing the app.

thx

You need to go to an airport with Global Entry, so you'll have to make a trip to DTW or ORD.