Re: [84attendees] YVR Checkin Counter Opening Hours (for US)

[Don Blumenthal <[e-mail]>]

You need to choose your security lines better. I haven't filled a US
Customs form out since I started using Global Entry.

Detroit, my home airport, was part of the initial test of the new Pre
Check program so I've been using it since the beginning of the year. It
isn't available for international flights.

On 8/4/12 11:33 PM, "John R Levine" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> Is there a separate line, signs, etc.?
>
>The NEXUS and GOES machines are next to each other, and after you get the
>card from either, you go to a separate line where a guy pretty much waves
>you through.
>
>I slightly prefer the GOES machine because you don't need to fill out
>a blue customs card, except that the petty bureaucrats at security don't
>know that so you have to fill one out and then throw it away.
>
>Fun economy tip: applying for GOES costs $100.  Applying for NEXUS costs
>$50, and once you have NEXUS, you can add on GOES for free.
>
>Re the NEXUS card, people tend to know what they are in parts of the US
>close to the Canadian and Mexican borders, not other places.  If you have
>a NEXUS card and provide the number when you check in for your flight in
>the US, that's supposed to get you into the new sort of experimental
>expedited security lines where you get to keep your shoes on.
>
>R's,
>John
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