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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Hoekstra is a fool who doesn't know what he is talking about. Pre-clearance isn't going anywhere. Forcing Canadians into customs stateside would massively overload US based facilities. The US uses pre-clearance for a reason. Canadians represent like 30% of international visits to the US.
The most I could see is them pulling it from a few smaller Canadian airports, but even then I would be surprised.
if Shannon airport in Ireland can support Pre-clearance, I'm sure the major Canadian airports can.
What Hoekstra saw was likely a report stating that US pre-clearance traffic was declining precipitously in Canadian airports and that the cost-per-passenger was increasing as a result to operate the facilities. The capital cost of shifting clearances back to domestic soil for Canadian trips (requiring large expansions of customs areas) and the likelyhood that the drop in traffic is transitory and unlikely to persist over the long term means the US would be unlikely to actually pull the service.
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Yes and the Canadian coverage of this has been ridiculous. This isn't some favor the US does for us. It is convenient for direct flights to the US but actually the opposite is true for connections which sure are the bulk of travellers but for the Asia and European transit travellers it would be easier to not have to do customs in the middle of their journey. The same is true when smaller Canadian airport travellers have to go via Toronto. Meanwhile for those from Canada transiting to South America it is very convenient. Now which country's airlines benefit from the latter and former?
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