Timeline for How unlikely is a discharge of passengers into the wrong concourse and what would the procedure be if it happened?
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| Apr 19, 2018 at 0:14 | comment | added | DTRT | @PeterGreen Yep, domestic passengers ending up in int'l arrivals isn't that much of a problem since you never technically left the country. All CBP would need to do is match the passenger to the domestic flight's manifest and see you through. It would be a huge inconvenience since the coordination between CBP and the airline would take seemingly forever. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 22:21 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | @PeterGreen I'm not sure why domestic passengers ending up in the immigration area would be that big a problem. The passengers wouldn't all have passports, but they would all have boarding passes and TSA compliant ID, which would be enough to identify them as domestic passengers and get them on their way. I once ended up in the immigration area years ago by a different sort of error (I needed to speak to customs, but not go through customs, and an airline employee didn't really understand and just sent me down), and a supervisor showed me out pretty easily enough after realizing what happened. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | DTRT | @PeterGreen I really don't recall ever hearing about something like this. It's a lot harder to make this mistake because the Agent meeting the aircraft comes from the 'domestic' side and wouldn't be able to get to the aircraft on most international configured gates. There are scattered reports of CBP checking domestic passengers, but they were most likely looking for specific persons. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 19:45 | comment | added | Peter Green | Are there any reports of the opposite? that is domestic passengers (some of whom may have a hard time proving they are in the country legally) being discharged into international arrivals? | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 19:11 | history | edited | DTRT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 18:59 | history | answered | DTRT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |