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Houston used to do this in 2000. Don't know what has happened since. (Flew Mexico to Japan without entering US.)
by mentat 11y ago
Houston used to do this in 2000. Don't know what has happened since. (Flew Mexico to Japan without entering US.)
- schoen 11y agoI also heard that LAX used to have sterile transit for a particular pair of flights (I think operated by the same airline).
- mikeash 11y agoI imagine it might come down to how much money the airline is willing to put into the necessary infrastructure. Paranoid security changes after 2001 might also have shut that sort of thing down.
- schoen 11y agoYeah, maybe an airline can say to the airport/CBP "we'll pay to rent a lounge/corridor/gates at this airport in this terminal for a sterile transit option between our flights or our partners' flights because some passengers want that" and maybe the airport/CBP can approve the proposal. (Maybe non-U.S. passport holders will still require an ESTA, but not a CBP examination?) I think the specific option at LAX was post-2001, but you had to be on a specific pair of flights to take advantage of it. (I didn't do it, I just read about it on FlyerTalk and forgot the details.)