Air India considering T2 for US flights hub

[Spanner Island]

It is still happening. It passes over me on my back from lunch every day. There was talks of increasing it but not sure wwhther that happened or not. Think its twice a day at present.

Cheers for clarification... wasn't sure about that...

[Spanner Island]

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It did happen although I don't think it's still operating...

Yes it is still operating.Apparently Barclays bank staff are amongst the regular travellers.

Bank staff... yep that would make sense...

As the world still tries to deal with the mess they made of things they're back to their old ways as if nothing happened, announcing massive profits and bonuses and flying around the world first class...

Irish banks and a few others excluded of course... (regarding profitability at least)... because even they are back to paying bonuses again, at our expense...

[Chrisco]

I've flown out of pre cleared Shannon and out of Heathrow into Boston, New York and Philadelphia where I wasn't pre cleared.

I never experienced long queues either way!

I'm not sure this pre clearance thing is as great an asset as we like to believe! It's a good thing for sure..

It depends on the time of year and the terminal you land at.

In the summer the immigration queues at JFK and O'Hare can be up to three hours. Coming from Cork I normally fly via LHR to the US, but last August I happened to be leaving from Dublin and was flying Aer Lingus: being able to skip the longest immigration queue I'd ever seen in the US convinced me it wasn't oversold. A lot of people missed connections that day, but not those starting from Dublin!

[dizillusioned]

It depends on the time of year and the terminal you land at.

In the summer the immigration queues at JFK and O'Hare can be up to three hours. Coming from Cork I normally fly via LHR to the US, but last August I happened to be leaving from Dublin and was flying Aer Lingus: being able to skip the longest immigration queue I'd ever seen in the US convinced me it wasn't oversold. A lot of people missed connections that day, but not those starting from Dublin!

I agree Chris, I fly in and out of America regularly. Pre-clearance is a boon just pick up your bags now and out the door, no waiting, after all it is not classed as a local flight. (hence no Duty Free flying in)

I have flown into JFK without pre-clearance and it took 4 hours to get through Immigration, I also find the officials in JFK without pre-clearance to be extremely ignorant, the staff in Dublin while doing their job properly,are always friendly yet efficient.

[omg a kitty]

Is this officially shelved or..?

[Balanceplease]

There will be big growth in US/India business travel in the coming years due to the continuing growth in outsourcing to India and growth in indigenous IT in India. It would make it a great draw for industry here being able to access both places and also provide half-way services like conferences and training and development centres in Ireland.

[mayotom]

yep would be, but air India were only looking for something temporary as they upgrade their fleet, within 2-3 years they will do all of their US flights non-stop with boeing 777's and 787's