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allabootmatt said:
“Transborder” is purely a Canadian concept, pretty much. Airports in other countries don’t have US preclearance (with very, very few exceptions) so there’s no need for the three-way division of passengers that makes Canadian airports relatively complicated to design.
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What about the European Union? Going from Frankfurt to Paris, or Warsaw to London?
 
W. K. Lis said:
What about the European Union? Going from Frankfurt to Paris, or Warsaw to London?
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The same as in virtually every other country: one for national flights, one for international flights. Inside the European Economic Area, there are no customs, while within the Schengen area, there are no passport controls, therfore intra-EEA flights are treated as national flights with an added passport control for intra-EEA passengers arriving in and/or departing from outside the Schengen area...
 
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Canada, United States of America, and Mexico should have some sort of North American Free Trade Agreement along the lines of the European Union. OH WAIT! There's some idiot to our south that wants to put up walls instead. Never mind. Better have clean underwear whenever I have to use the new (improved?) Pearson Transit Hub, just in case.
 
W. K. Lis said:
Canada, United States of America, and Mexico should have some sort of North American Free Trade Agreement along the lines of the European Union. OH WAIT! There's some idiot to our south that wants to put up walls instead. Never mind. Better have clean underwear whenever I have to use the new (improved?) Pearson Transit Hub, just in case.
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Just get a flashy thong. Then it will at least amuse those who are watching.
 
W. K. Lis said:
What about the European Union? Going from Frankfurt to Paris, or Warsaw to London?
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Warsaw to London would be treated as an international flight, since the UK while a member of the EU is not a member of the passport-free travel zone. So while for Warsaw airport purposes a flight to Paris would go from the ‘domestic’ gates, a flight to London would be ‘international,’ and gated alongside flights to Toronto or New York or Asia.

At end of the day, unlike in Canada, European airports need only two categories of gate. The Canadian situation is a more complicated to design, but I would argue it entails huge benefits. It’s typically MUCH faster to clear US customs in Toronto than at the other end, and preclearance also means that you can fly from Canadian cities to LaGuardia and Reagan airports, neither of which has border control facilities. For business travelers that’s a huge convenience over JFK and Dulles.
 
Any news on when we might expect any updates?

They were supposed to release an updated master plan, were they?
 
cplchanb said:
YAY!!!!! Partisan games again at the whim of transit riders and the average citizen :)
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In fairness, The GTTA owes Mississauga a fair amount of tax money and has play hard ball for years on most things.
 
micheal_can said:
Maybe we should get rid of that preclearance.
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We just expanded it.
http://nationalpost.com/news/politi...preclearance-for-billy-bishop-and-quebec-city

The preclearance also clears one of the many, many hurdles to operating preclearance at Montreal Central Station, eliminating the border check on Amtrak Montrealer (and the intermediate stop at St-Lambert) and facilitating extension of Amtrak Vermonter from St. Albans VT to Montreal.
http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/2017...es-closer-improved-air-and-rail-travel-canada
 
dowlingm said:
We just expanded it.
http://nationalpost.com/news/politi...preclearance-for-billy-bishop-and-quebec-city

The preclearance also clears one of the many, many hurdles to operating preclearance at Montreal Central Station, eliminating the border check on Amtrak Montrealer (and the intermediate stop at St-Lambert) and facilitating extension of Amtrak Vermonter from St. Albans VT to Montreal.
http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/2017...es-closer-improved-air-and-rail-travel-canada
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Would this preclearance system also be in effect at Union Station and all others on the Maple Leaf Services to the US? (ie Oakville, Aldershot, Grimsby, Niagra Falls)? Or would they just check passports upon entry and exit of the train? And how about train service entering Canada, how would they check passports then?
 
Streety McCarface said:
Would this preclearance system also be in effect at Union Station and all others on the Maple Leaf Services to the US? (ie Oakville, Aldershot, Grimsby, Niagra Falls)? Or would they just check passports upon entry and exit of the train? And how about train service entering Canada, how would they check passports then?
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To operate preclearance all stops between the border and Toronto would have to be dropped (as St. Lambert is being dropped).
 
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