Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2015

jonesMUFCforever

Froggitt wrote: »

Nope. Any LGW or LHR flight to LAS requires international immigration there.


Flights to the US from DUB (eg AA, AL) are the ones that go down the immigration cleared route in LAS.

Copied from Dublin airport's website

United States Customs and Border ProtectionThe United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) facility at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport is a purpose built facility that allows US bound passengers to undertake all immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin prior to departure.Dublin Airport is one of only a handful of airports outside North America that offer the CBP facility. Having cleared USCBP, passengers arriving in the US are treated as domestic arrivals, which allows for a faster processing through their arrival airport in the United States including the checking through of any baggage to the traveller’s final destination. Passengers on all US bound flights clear immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin Airport.

It does say all US bound flights.

stoneman

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Copied from Dublin airport's website

United States Customs and Border ProtectionThe United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) facility at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport is a purpose built facility that allows US bound passengers to undertake all immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin prior to departure.Dublin Airport is one of only a handful of airports outside North America that offer the CBP facility. Having cleared USCBP, passengers arriving in the US are treated as domestic arrivals, which allows for a faster processing through their arrival airport in the United States including the checking through of any baggage to the traveller’s final destination. Passengers on all US bound flights clear immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin Airport.

It does say all US bound flights.

In reality though that's not the case. Only selected BA flights from LCY get pre clearence

Froggitt

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Copied from Dublin airport's website

United States Customs and Border ProtectionThe United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) facility at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport is a purpose built facility that allows US bound passengers to undertake all immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin prior to departure.Dublin Airport is one of only a handful of airports outside North America that offer the CBP facility. Having cleared USCBP, passengers arriving in the US are treated as domestic arrivals, which allows for a faster processing through their arrival airport in the United States including the checking through of any baggage to the traveller’s final destination. Passengers on all US bound flights clear immigration, customs and agriculture inspections at Dublin Airport.

It does say all US bound flights.

And flying to LGW or LHR is not a US bound flight.

Froggitt

Flights from DUB T2 to the UK do not go through the US clearance procedures.

bobbyhibs

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Aer lingus is part of British airways now or code share anyway.
You get to Dublin clear immigration there (there is a YouTube film about this) then fly back to Gatwick/Heathrow and fly direct to Vegas from there.
When you get to Vegas you go through internal security clearance not the international one.
Seriously thinking of this for next year as getting to Dublin is less hassle than getting to Gatwick for me.
The savings per couple are amazing - mostly due to different air passenger duty levels in Eire compared to UK.

Ok thanx for this.
being from scotland(would fly from edinburgh) im unsure if i wanna head to dublin to *MAYBE clear* imigration and then having to fly to gatwick,heathrow and then direct to vegas.

Its just i was looking at flights for next years holiday and i was looking for flights from jfk to edinburgh, direct wise(coming homewords), I noticed that putting into expedia, that aer lingus does jfk to dublin >edinburgh which would maybe suit us.

bobbyhibs

jadamcp wrote: »

Probably better booking separately (but not always as I've found previously with BA)

You can book Luxor / Excal for just over £200 for certain weeks in November (with LowCostUSA) excluding those pesky resort fees. So that would be around £600ish for November combined with TC flights.

hi there
thank you for the heads up so to speak in regardsa lowcost usa. are they a uk based company?
had a quick nosy about a vegas hotel for next year and seem a good good price.
have many people used lowcostusa?

jonesMUFCforever

Froggitt wrote: »

And flying to LGW or LHR is not a US bound flight.

You book direct to Vegas you just happen to go from Dublin>Gatwick>Vegas

I have a friend who is doing this route in September I will report back then with more info.

Froggitt

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

You book direct to Vegas you just happen to go from Dublin>Gatwick>Vegas

I don't disagree with this. Your luggage will be ticketed straight through.


However the way it works for you is that certain flights (and everyone on those flights) are pre-cleared for US customs. Its those Aer Lingus to USA, and Delta/AA to USA flights.


They don't pre-clear a flight (and all its passengers) going to say Heathrow.....whether its Aer Lingus, BA, whatever. Think about it.......you can buy or be given fruit or meat or a wad of currency while at Heathrow. Further, the Heathrow flight isn't pre-cleared, so wherever you personally started your journey, the whole flight ex-LHR is going to end up in the international terminal/lines in the US, as there is no pre-clearance of flights at Heathrow or Gatwick.

duchy

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

You book direct to Vegas you just happen to go from Dublin>Gatwick>Vegas

I have a friend who is doing this route in September I will report back then with more info.

You don't need to report back -

It applies to flights that are direct from the Republic of Ireland to the USA only (and yes I've done the ticketed DUB LON LAS personally several times and can confirm you clear customs and immigration on arrival in LAS )

jadamcp

Hi Bobby, I have used them about four times, until this year it was always including resort fee for a good few hotels which was a major plus in my opinion. They are UK based.