Flying Aer Lingus from Boston to Manchester UK with a stop over Help
May 13th, 2011, 02:44 PM
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Flying Aer Lingus from Boston to Manchester UK with a stop over Help
I am flying Aer Lingus from Boston to Manchester UK. I have a stop over in Dublin. Do I need to collect my bags, go thru customs, re-check baggagae, re go thru security? That is the process when you land in the united states. Dont know if it is the same there. On the way home I am flying Manchester to Boston with a lay over in Shannon. Do I have the same routine there?
When I flew international in the past, we did not have to get baggage at the connecting flight in France (cant remember as a child what my parents had to do for us) but we did have to go thru security again. This is my first time flying international by my self so I am a bit nervous. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
And my tickets were booked all together as one round trip.
When I flew international in the past, we did not have to get baggage at the connecting flight in France (cant remember as a child what my parents had to do for us) but we did have to go thru security again. This is my first time flying international by my self so I am a bit nervous. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
And my tickets were booked all together as one round trip.
May 13th, 2011, 05:19 PM
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Hi krisbornreed85,
From Boston, I've made a few Aer Lingus trips through Dublin and one through Shannon, but it was with carry on, not checked luggage. Hopefully someone who has done checked will also reply.
In Dublin, you yourself will get off and go through immigration .. hmm, I don't remember customs .. I walked past a baggage collection area and then up some stairs to go through security to get to my connecting flights.
I have come back to Boston once through Dublin and once through Shannon. Both times immigration to come back to the States was handled over there, but customs was done in Boston after you get your baggage. In Dublin, you again have to go through their immigration booth, past the baggage carousels and upstairs to security to get through to your connecting flight. Do go to the gate sooner than later because the US immigration line was time consuming. Landing in Shannon, we had to take everything with us, get off, go around, go through immigration, a security check and then back on the plane.
Hope some of that helps.
From Boston, I've made a few Aer Lingus trips through Dublin and one through Shannon, but it was with carry on, not checked luggage. Hopefully someone who has done checked will also reply.
In Dublin, you yourself will get off and go through immigration .. hmm, I don't remember customs .. I walked past a baggage collection area and then up some stairs to go through security to get to my connecting flights.
I have come back to Boston once through Dublin and once through Shannon. Both times immigration to come back to the States was handled over there, but customs was done in Boston after you get your baggage. In Dublin, you again have to go through their immigration booth, past the baggage carousels and upstairs to security to get through to your connecting flight. Do go to the gate sooner than later because the US immigration line was time consuming. Landing in Shannon, we had to take everything with us, get off, go around, go through immigration, a security check and then back on the plane.
Hope some of that helps.
May 13th, 2011, 10:08 PM
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The process is different from Scotlib's experience: transferring to the UK is different from transferring elsewhere, and the system has recently changed.
On arriving at Dublin from outside the UK/Ireland, your bags will be automatically transferred to the MCR flight, and you don't need to worry about them. You MUST go through Irish immigration, though, for a transfer to a UK destination. No-one gets on a plane in the British Isles without going through security again (we don't trust foreign security checks), and travellers from the US most certainly aren't an exception.
On arrival at MCR you don't go through immigration (though if the neo-IRA are back bombing people, you might be ushered through a special police check corridor). You're not subject to Customs, but since your bags will be tagged as coming from outside ther EU, there's a very tiny chance you might be stopped, though it's practically unheard of. 99.9% of the time you'll go and collect your bags as if you'd arrived from Glasgow.
In reverse, US immigration, Customs and all that silly stuff about agriculture (or rather, technically, pre-clearance) are now carried out in Shannon. I'm not sure whether those impertinent dogs sniff your bags for illegal oranges, or how US CBP get them into Ireland if they do, but otherwise it's just like arriving in the US only in Ireland. You don't go throgh any of it again in the US, though it's just possible you might be selected for a full Customs inspection at Boston. Or have the CBP spaniels at you to double-check for apples.
On arriving at Dublin from outside the UK/Ireland, your bags will be automatically transferred to the MCR flight, and you don't need to worry about them. You MUST go through Irish immigration, though, for a transfer to a UK destination. No-one gets on a plane in the British Isles without going through security again (we don't trust foreign security checks), and travellers from the US most certainly aren't an exception.
On arrival at MCR you don't go through immigration (though if the neo-IRA are back bombing people, you might be ushered through a special police check corridor). You're not subject to Customs, but since your bags will be tagged as coming from outside ther EU, there's a very tiny chance you might be stopped, though it's practically unheard of. 99.9% of the time you'll go and collect your bags as if you'd arrived from Glasgow.
In reverse, US immigration, Customs and all that silly stuff about agriculture (or rather, technically, pre-clearance) are now carried out in Shannon. I'm not sure whether those impertinent dogs sniff your bags for illegal oranges, or how US CBP get them into Ireland if they do, but otherwise it's just like arriving in the US only in Ireland. You don't go throgh any of it again in the US, though it's just possible you might be selected for a full Customs inspection at Boston. Or have the CBP spaniels at you to double-check for apples.
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flanneruk, you know that I am normally an admirer of your ability to cut through nonsense, but as a resident of a country in which Mad Cow disease has been rampant and foot-and-mouth disease continues to be, you have no right to refer to US agricultural restrictions as "silly stuff."
May 14th, 2011, 02:41 AM
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"but as a resident of a country in which Mad Cow disease has been rampant and foot-and-mouth disease continues to be"
Neither are rampant. Nor am I'm conversant with the incidence of either in oranges
Neither are rampant. Nor am I'm conversant with the incidence of either in oranges
May 14th, 2011, 03:22 AM
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1.Mad cow wasn't Foot and mouth isn't
2. If you really believe the fortune American taxpayers are forced to waste on pointless enforcement of absurd bans (like those on foreign apples) has any justification except as yet another protection for its feather-bedded farmers against the danger of foreign competition, you're simply misguided.
Whether it's requiring interior designers to have licences, maintaining kennelsful of sniffer dogs to detect contraband bars of Cadbury's, illegally banning Mexican trucks at the behest of the criminal-dominated Teamsters union or subsidising its cotton growers (and then paying millions to Brazil in compensation), no society on earth wastes so much money on ensuring inefficient businesses are kept safe from foreigners (or in the case of interior designers, hair-braiders and ballroom-dancing teachers, Americans too poor to afford unnecessary licences and their requisite training) from doing the same thing better for half the price.
2. If you really believe the fortune American taxpayers are forced to waste on pointless enforcement of absurd bans (like those on foreign apples) has any justification except as yet another protection for its feather-bedded farmers against the danger of foreign competition, you're simply misguided.
Whether it's requiring interior designers to have licences, maintaining kennelsful of sniffer dogs to detect contraband bars of Cadbury's, illegally banning Mexican trucks at the behest of the criminal-dominated Teamsters union or subsidising its cotton growers (and then paying millions to Brazil in compensation), no society on earth wastes so much money on ensuring inefficient businesses are kept safe from foreigners (or in the case of interior designers, hair-braiders and ballroom-dancing teachers, Americans too poor to afford unnecessary licences and their requisite training) from doing the same thing better for half the price.
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