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The US carriers wield their new weapon: preclearance

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Competition

It would seem that the US carriers have heeded our advice in this month’s Aviation Intelligence Reporter. We reported that delays in Etihad’s service into the USA have allegedly been caused by the US Customs’ preclearance facilities at Abu Dhabi, which have been accused of slowing down the passenger transfer and boarding processes. We rather cheekily suggested that, if that is actually the case, the US carriers could make some competitive gains by further encouragement of preclearance facilities. Well, American Airlines and United Airlines have both just come out in support of plans by the US Department of Homeland Security to expand preclearance to another 10 airports. This includes airports in Belgium, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Japan and the Dominican Republic. They should really have pushed for Qatar and Dubai while they were at it.

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