Canadian airports

[Andrew Webber]

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:04:25 -0500, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:55:16 -0500, Andrew Webber wrote:
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>>Sure, but I don't think you have US PFI (Pre-Flight Inspection)
>>yet, do you?  That's what makes Ottawa the world-class sh.. err,
>>city, that it is!
>
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>How preflight are you talking about?  We do have to go through x-ray
>machines, and they have dogs and cops in plainclothes watching.

PFI is where the INS and US Customs have a facility in a Canadian
airport.  Toronto's had it since the 1950s and Ottawa just added
theirs in 1997.  It means (most*) transborder flights from Toronto
land at a domestic terminal, giving two benefits: flights to US
airports without INS and Customs (e.g. Ottawa-Reagan National or
Toronto-Allentown), and even flights to big airports have much
better connections (e.g. AA flights Ottawa-Chicago now land at a
domestic gate in Terminal 3 instead of Terminal 5).

I think Halifax is the only Canadian airport with scheduled service
to the US that still doesn't have a US PFI area, so flying
Halifax-Boston means clearing Immigration at Boston.  Ottawa's
airport needs expansion and the transborder area is small and
crowded (not that there are many large flights).

*I think discount semi-charter airline Canada 3000 clears at the
American destination, primarily because the Toronto gates within
the PFI area are more expensive.


andrew [awebber@wwwebbers.com]
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