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JasYHZ From Canada, joined Sep 2005, 175 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1199 times:

Good Afternoon Everyone!

I've never flown into JFK before and I have a question regarding customs/terminals etc. I arrive on an American Eagle flight from Halifax, Nova Scotia at 0725. I'm then departing on a regular AA flight to MIA (and then onto TPA) at 1000.

a) How is JFK customs at that time of the morning?
b) Will I have to change terminals?
c) How difficult will it be changing terminals?

I understand AA just moved into it's new digs @ JFK and wondered if I will encounter any of it.

Thx, JasYHZ.

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RJpieces From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1158 times:

At American's terminal, it should be very quiet at that time of morning...They have a 777 arriving from GRU and a 767 from EZR both at 6AM and that should be about it.

Eagle arrives at the brand new terminal 9, midfield concourse. Most of AA's Miami flights now leave from Terminal 9...But some do from Terminal 8 as well.

So if you do have to walk over to T8, it is not bad at all..I'm pretty sure the area is covered and not more than 5 minutes.

Most likely though, your flight to MIA will leave from the same concourse where your Eagle flight arrived from.

But chances are you will have enough time to take a trip around JFK on the AirTrain if you want.

AirFranceJFK From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 475 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1103 times:

Don't all transborder flights from Canada to the US preclear in Canada?

Venezuela747 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1407 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1101 times:

I thought all flights from Canada were pre-cleared????

ROLL TIDE!!!

SFOJFK From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 79 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1099 times:

You will arrive at the new T9 midfield concourse. You deplane by stairs to a bus that will drive you over to T8 for immigration and customs.

STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16260 posts, RR: 52
Reply 5, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1079 times:

Quoting Venezuela747 (Reply 3):
I thought all flights from Canada were pre-cleared????

The only Canadian Cities with pre-clearance are Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and maybe Calgary.

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Chase From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 1054 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1040 times:

Yes, YYC. Also YEG and YWG.

Also, I googled "Halifax preclearance" and found an article from December, 2004 saying that Halifax anticipated having a preclearance facility built in 18 months. So...about June 2006.

[Edited 2005-12-12 22:20:36]

RJpieces From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1016 times:

Quoting SFOJFK (Reply 4):
You deplane by stairs to a bus that will drive you over to T8 for immigration and customs.

There you go. So you'll probably have to walk back to T9 for your MIA flight. Again, it isn't a bad walk.

JasYHZ From Canada, joined Sep 2005, 175 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1008 times:

yeah, no preclearance yet.....can't wait for that!

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Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17
Reply 9, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 843 times:

JFK customs can be a real treat at times.

Personally, I find EWRs customs a tad more pleasant, but it could be the timing.

We can agree to disagree.

Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19712 posts, RR: 56
Reply 10, posted (7 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 816 times:

Terminal 8's customs building isn't going to win any prizes (except in the negative category) for aesthetics, but the lines shouldn't be too long.

-Mir

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