There's another scenario - flying between two cities in country A but via a airport in country B. This sounds absurd, but it's actually quite common among frequent fliers in China, since in some seasons the flights between the North and South can be insanely expensive, and it's often cheaper to connect in Bangkok or HK. Most airlines don't have the right to sell such a ticket, so it usually has to be two separate itineraries, but it's perfectly fine when you don't have checked bags. 😂
In Indonesia due to expensive domestic ticket seasons it happens sometimes too.. especially from Sumatra to somewhre more east (like Medan to Bali via Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.. or Aceh to Jakarta via KL or Singapore. Works out cheaper if say you get an Airasia promo or something..
Do note that if you have two separate tickets, and you miss your second flight because the first was delayed, neither airline has any obligation to book you on another flight.
@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 both Shenzhen and Chengdu are in the south of China, it would be more like a flight like Guangzhou or Shenzhen to Beijing or Tianjin, or somewhere like that
3:54 THANK YOU, I took a European Domestic Flight connecting to Toronto from Paris a few weeks back, and I was extremely confused as to why I was going through Shengen zone customs after arriving on a flight from within the shengen zone.
Well, actually you missed a big piece of information speaking about going out to explore a city where you have the layover - the visa. Always double check whether you need a visa to exit to the city (=enter the country) or not. Usually it's not but in some cases you can be stuck in the transit zone for hours.
Yes, absolutely! In fact, that was one of the things I was hinting towards with the final point about transiting between different airports, which is that it can sometimes take practically forever to go through customs (with or without a visa).
I'm really glad that there are direct flights from Vancouver to Frankfurt. I wouldn't have wanted to deal with a layover when flying alone for the first time.
That last thing. I have made the mistake once. And it was the day when Istanbul was covered in snow. Thankfully I had a 7 hour layover and a taxi pre-booked, so even with a 2 hour delay arriving at Istanbul I could get in to my next flight on time
I just got back from Turkey last week and I almost made a similar mistake. Arrived at Sabiha, was supposed to depart from IST but told the taxi driver to take me to Ataturk. Fortunately he had enough sense and English to tell me Ataturk no longer operates commercial flights
I think this video missed some key details for those traveling to the United States. In many airports, especially those in Canada, international flights to the United States can occur in a separate, secluded area called a "preclearance zone". In these cases, rules are a little different: you go through US customs and immigration before you depart from the US, meaning you arrive in the US as a domestic passenger. In terms of transiting, here are a few examples: A: Flying to the US via a preclearance airport in your home country Here, you will take your first flight as a domestic flight, however, after you arrive at your layover airport, you will follow signs to US gates (sometimes called Transborder gates in Canada), go through security, then immigration/customs, then you will take your flight to the US, where you will arrive as a domestic passenger. B: Flying to the US via a preclearance airport in another country Here, you will take your first flight as an international flight, but at your layover, you will still have to follow signs to US gates, go through security again, then immigration/customs, then finally take your flight to the US, where you will arrive as a domestic passenger. PLEASE NOTE: You CANNOT under any circumstances leave a preclearance zone once you go through US immigration. You are technically already in the United States, meaning that if you were to leave the preclearance zone, you'd be entering the country of the airport illegally. The only way to mitigate this issue is to go through the immigration/customs of the layover airport's country, and this is only ever granted in special circumstances. Only enter the preclearance zone if you are waiting for your flight, but give yourself enough time because lines are often long.
4:24 I had an example of this, Toronto to San Jose (Costa Rica) via Houston both ways. I did have to go through US customs and say I was in transit to the final destination.
I've booked flights home to Philadelphia from Hawaii and purchased each leg separately (OGG to SFO, then SFO to PHL) with 3 days in between, so that my layover was a weekend trip in between my trip home. Not really a layover, just breaking up the trip home into separate trips. That was easy to do in San Francisco. My first trip to Hawaii via LAX however, was crazy. I had a 2-hour layover in LAX but had to exit the airport, get on a shuttle, then go through LAX again in the International Terminal, which meant more security, and then to my gate for Maui. I guess someone forgot to tell LAX that Hawaii was still part of the USA.
I like to consider myself an experienced flyer but considering the fact that I've been stuck two days in an airport twice because of bad planning from my part, I probably needed to watch this video. As usual KhAnubis, great video on an important topic that people don't really think about!
2:50 would be a good time to point out that mobile passport exist and it's basically a CBP app that you complete your declarations forms on and just makes the whole process 10x quicker as you get to go through a special line where you present the QR code to get scanned. Just one of those gems that makes your life far easier
I have done transit in Canada as a 3rd country. It was a little confusing since I’m a New Zealander that hadn’t traveled to North America before. I expected it to work the same as Australia, Europe, or Asia. I was travelling Tokyo Haneda to Denver via Vancouver. Rather than going through customs to enter Canada or a transit area, I went through US customs and immigration in while in transit in Vancouver before I departed and entered Denver as if it were a domestic flight. This might be a special case as Denver probably doesn’t get many international flights. I did not have to collect my bags in Vancouver, they checked all the way from Tokyo but I was required to have an ESTA for BOTH the US and Canada before departing Tokyo (despite never entering Canada). Otherwise the transit area was like anywhere else in the world and used Canadian dollars (despite being behind US customs).
Anyone who enters Canada via a plane needs ESTA. I think it’s just a cash grab for those connecting passengers, especially when you consider that I didn’t need ESTA when traveling by land.
I’m not even sure I needed one. I went straight from the international arrivals (through US customs) to the transit area. I never went through Canadian customs or entered Canada. If I did this in Hong Kong for example, I would not need any documents for the local government. I still have no idea if it was required for that or if the check in counter simply wouldn’t let me leave Japan without it.
Do u know if I need US visa if I'm doing connection flight there? I checked and I'm not part of the ESTA list of countries, I mean I need visa for entering US but I don't know if I need visa for making connecting flight in US :(
@@anamilenacanote529 Honestly, I have no idea. My destination was in the US and I had already visited Hawaii and completed the ESTA process (an an NZ citizen). I didn't even consider getting a visa for Canada but the airline check-in counter would not let me board my flight unless I had one. I was lucky to be able to do it online (and it's cheaper than the US one). Check with your airline and local US embassy/consulate before departing to be sure. Embassy websites are also helpful. You can be required to have a visa for transit, Australia for example does this for muslim-majority countries.
Transit between different airports in the same city can be done. Just give yourself a lot of time. Transit by train between Incheon and Gimpo (Seoul) or Haneda and Narita (Tokyo) is simple and convenient. People do it all the time.
I go through Hong Kong all the time. I know exactly which bus takes me to the restaurant I like for lunch. I go through immigration and customs, but when I continue on I don’t have to get my bags and recheck them. HKG has special lines for international transfers that avoid immigration entirely, but most of the time my layovers are intentionally long enough to leave the airport to catch the bus to lunch. HK immigration takes me 30 seconds or so (thanks e-channel!). Yeah, I know there’s Airport Express trains, but the bus has a nice view on the ride from Lantau into the city and it goes directly to the restaurant (and directly back after).
FYI: Boston Logan, has 4 terminals, A, B, C are domestic (minus a few exceptions, mostly pre-cleared flights- arrivals only, never departures) and E for International. There are walkways, pre and post-security, and shuttle buses pre-security.
Important thing to remember about layovers: remember timezones! Don't be the guy who thought he had a two-hour layover when it was only one hour and ends up stuck in North Carolina for 7 hours because he forgot he was in the Eastern Time zone, and not Central like his origin point and destination. _Totally_ not speaking from personal experience.
One thing I've noticed at NRT, ICN DMK and BKK: Unannounced, seemingly unnecessary security checks (long lines) can appear out of nowhere. I always allow 2 hrs minimum between flights (assuming baggage is checked through to final destination).
It will also depend on your passport if your layover country will give you a visa on arrival for an excursion day. And beware if you’re going to have a connection flights you might need a transit visa such as in the USA
Some flights from Canada to the US have customs during the layover. On my flight from Vancouver to Miami, I had a layover in Toronto as there’s no direct flights. While I was in Toronto however, I went through American customs before my flight and not when I landed in Miami.
On Domestic flights with layovers, you Shouldn't have to go through security again, but I was made to when I flew from Buffalo to Washington by way of Boston on Jetblue. I ended up barely making my connecting flight.
During my first trip to Disney World, I flew on Delta from Newark EWR to Orlando but had a stop in Atlanta, the world's busiest airport. It was hectic. They kept changing gates (making us walk back and forth several times), changed planes, it was severely delayed, and there were a lot of people. It was awful. And what did they give us after all of that? ORANGE JUICE, a small glass of orange juice. Thanks, Delta. We also had a connection in Cincinnati (although the airport is actually in Kentucky) on the way back but that one was fine and relaxed because we had no problems there
Changing gates can be a bit of a problem in Europe, too. Gates are only announced about two hours before the flight, with passengers expected to wait in a common area beforehand (wish I had known that my first few times). I do remember being in Istanbul-Atatürk airport and finally finding my gate to Berlin, only for it to switch to Baghdad (or probably Medina, I don't fully remember) and making us find the Berlin gate all over again.
As long as you look up your flight number & gate number you should have no problem getting to your next airplane on time plus charge up your devices & have movies downloaded in case there's a long wait.
One thing you missed, and I’ve experienced this myself, is on some international flights with a layover in another country you may only have to clear customs/immigration in one of the countries depending on the country. I connected through Zurich on my flight to Rome, and we did immigration in Zurich but we didn’t have to do customs/immigration when we got off the Zurich-Rome flight. On my Ecuador trip, I connected through bogota both ways and in bogota passengers connecting from one international flight to another didn’t have to do customs/immigration. As for connecting from one international flight to non-US international flight in Canada (from my experience, and in Toronto at least), you do clear immigration but you don’t have to clear customs.
For my dad, he had a nightmare time. He had a flight delay at Laguardia, but this time, when his flight got delayed, the check-in agent told him that he was going to get a missed connection at Atlanta, which means my dad had to take another Delta flight from JFK to Amsterdam and had another airline operated by Delta going to Nigeria and that's what happened
The most important thing about a connecting flight: both flights need to be booked on the same itinerary or passenger reference code (i.e. booked at the same moment and you entering both your origin and final destination in the "book a flight" page). If you book them separately (even a few minutes a apart from each other and on the same website), they won't be treated as connecting flights.
That's the papers please typewriter sound, when you get a citation from the glorious Ministry of Admission. So, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO BE SICK OF THIS SOUND! You WILL be sent to gulag! GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!
For 3:25 you should have given an example of Germany to Thailand with layover at UAE on Emirates. Before flight you just need to print 2 boarding passes, pass through immigration, once at UAE just go to the gate to your destination then you will be on your way to Thailand, you will just need to fill up embarkation card and/or custom card from your destination.
Explained everything so well and missed or never mentioned anything about Visa or at least Transit Visa. This is the kind of videos that I would be fooled if I am not aware of anything...
The US are pushing for pre-clearance areas in several European countries, and they probably are getting that sooner than later, but it hasn't happened yet.
Depends on your route. If both legs are flown by the same airline they'll probably check your bags all the way through automatically. If you are given your bags back at the second airport (i.e. changing airlines, customs, etc.) then you might be given the option to re-check your bags Take this advice with a grain of salt though, as I am someone who tries to avoid checking bags as much as possible
if i fly from houston to italy,with two layovers,first one being 41 minutes in chicago then the second in london for three hours,what do you suggest i do.im mainly just scared about my luggage being left behind.
I have a flight from Portland to London but have a layover in Canada. My layover is only an hour long, do you think that will be enough time to have to go through customs again? I'm very nervous lmao
That sorta depends on the airport and what country you're going through. Generally your checked baggage continues through the airport (if you're staying the night in the city, your bag is spending the night in the airport), but there are some exceptions, like if your layover sees you entering the US (e.g. Paris to New York to St. Louis), because they give you your bag so it's on you during customs, after which you can presumably take it with you before re-checking it.
Good thing to know: Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) now has an official US Customs Station allowing full processing before you even set foot (or wing) in the States. This is the way to return home if you can't stand the cattle-call antics at major US hubs :)
This has been a thing for years and it's not just YYZ. It's canadian airports that fly to the U.S. in general. YUL, YYC, YEG, YHZ,YOW,YVR,YWG all have it.
thanks a lot I was so stressed to travel alone lmao, I have one question. I have a layover of 13 hours in London and I have to go to another airport in London to get in my next plane. Do you know if I have to ask for a Visa since I'm "traveling" in the UK ?
If you are transferring from one airport to another, that means you are leaving the airport, which means you are indeed entering the UK proper and go through immigration, however whether you need a visa to clear immigration depends on your citizenship. I'd recommend looking at the Wikipedia page "Visa requirements for [country on your passport] citizens" or "Visa policy of the United Kingdom"
I have a problem I’m flying from Russia-Doha 2 hour layover Doha-Seattle 2 hour layover Seattle-Alaska What do I do in this scenario? I’m flying with only one airline so there’s no different airlines How do I check in? Do I have to go threw immigration tsa and stuff? What about my checked bags,do I recheck them in every time I land? 😊
In in thailand and I have a lay over in Japan and then I go to Canada when I get to Japan do I have to go to a different gate and get on a different flight?
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Leaving the airport during a layover counts as you entering that country though right? Wouldn’t that be inadvisable in cases where you have to pay some sort of fee or go through extra procedures to enter the country? Bali has a visiting fee you have to pay for tourists, right? Also you’d need a visa for some places?
If I'm traveling by one airline e.g Air India from one country to another..and after the layover over there if I'm getting into another airlines e.g Lufthansa to go to my destination country...is there a possibility to check to luggage..coz the baggage allowance is different for different airlines... should I need to pay extra according to my connecting flight airline?.. please let me know about this
I have a flight albania TIA to Austria VIE then to London Heathrow my layover in Vienna is 35 mins 😭😭😭😭 what do I do I have to go through security it is in the same terminal
@@KhAnubis so im from edmonton and my original destination is Davao, philippines. I can go with 2 stops, but the price was $2,000+ so i went for the cheapest. So it was Edmonton - Denver - Los Angeles - Narita - Incheon, korea - Manila, Philippines - davao. Over all is 33 hours. Over all 5 stops
Sometimes having a long layover can be the cheaper option, though mainly if it's on the same itinerary or you fly one (or both) of the flights with a budget airline.
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I literally just LOL’d!
My biggest fear is getting lost at a layover, missing my flight, possibly being forced to pay an additional ticket to get where I need to go.
Same!!!!! Headed to the airport right now my layover break time is only 35mins and I’ll probably be last off the plane
I'm sure he explained everything very well but I didn't understand any of it
Me too ...its soo fast ...like Bullet train
I understood most of it but it was kinda like listening to a teacher
Lmfao
you make me laugh :D
Me too
When u say you've been to France once cuz u had a 15 minute layover in Paris Airport
When you say you've been to the Netherlands and Germany because you had a layover on the way to and from Ghana
When you say you've been to Italy because you had a layover at Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
Thomas Turner i went to India by having a layover in New Dehli
I went to Amsterdam,Milan and Dubai with layovers.
I've been to Houston because of layovers
0:11 Literally every UA-camr who has done a video on flights has used this clip before haha
Matthew6500 he talks about US domestic flights while the screen is from a Russian airport with Cyrillic.
@@TheMasterhomaster Everyone uses that clip too haha
Was literally looking for this specific comment lol
There's another scenario - flying between two cities in country A but via a airport in country B. This sounds absurd, but it's actually quite common among frequent fliers in China, since in some seasons the flights between the North and South can be insanely expensive, and it's often cheaper to connect in Bangkok or HK. Most airlines don't have the right to sell such a ticket, so it usually has to be two separate itineraries, but it's perfectly fine when you don't have checked bags. 😂
Like, Shenzhen to Chengdu via Hong Kong?
In Indonesia due to expensive domestic ticket seasons it happens sometimes too.. especially from Sumatra to somewhre more east (like Medan to Bali via Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.. or Aceh to Jakarta via KL or Singapore. Works out cheaper if say you get an Airasia promo or something..
Do note that if you have two separate tickets, and you miss your second flight because the first was delayed, neither airline has any obligation to book you on another flight.
You can’t leave from an airport in country B and still call it flying between 2 cities in country A. Not possible.
@@mattthegamerhongkong6948 both Shenzhen and Chengdu are in the south of China, it would be more like a flight like Guangzhou or Shenzhen to Beijing or Tianjin, or somewhere like that
3:54 THANK YOU, I took a European Domestic Flight connecting to Toronto from Paris a few weeks back, and I was extremely confused as to why I was going through Shengen zone customs after arriving on a flight from within the shengen zone.
Yeah, I remember being surprised at getting my passport stamped a second time when I first went to Berlin a couple years ago.
Who is watching before flying somewhere?
Well, actually you missed a big piece of information speaking about going out to explore a city where you have the layover - the visa. Always double check whether you need a visa to exit to the city (=enter the country) or not. Usually it's not but in some cases you can be stuck in the transit zone for hours.
Yes, absolutely! In fact, that was one of the things I was hinting towards with the final point about transiting between different airports, which is that it can sometimes take practically forever to go through customs (with or without a visa).
visa thingy is surely confusing, especially if the transit and destination country have different policies about visa
I'm really glad that there are direct flights from Vancouver to Frankfurt. I wouldn't have wanted
to deal with a layover when flying alone for the first time.
That last thing. I have made the mistake once. And it was the day when Istanbul was covered in snow. Thankfully I had a 7 hour layover and a taxi pre-booked, so even with a 2 hour delay arriving at Istanbul I could get in to my next flight on time
I just got back from Turkey last week and I almost made a similar mistake. Arrived at Sabiha, was supposed to depart from IST but told the taxi driver to take me to Ataturk. Fortunately he had enough sense and English to tell me Ataturk no longer operates commercial flights
I think this video missed some key details for those traveling to the United States. In many airports, especially those in Canada, international flights to the United States can occur in a separate, secluded area called a "preclearance zone". In these cases, rules are a little different: you go through US customs and immigration before you depart from the US, meaning you arrive in the US as a domestic passenger. In terms of transiting, here are a few examples:
A: Flying to the US via a preclearance airport in your home country
Here, you will take your first flight as a domestic flight, however, after you arrive at your layover airport, you will follow signs to US gates (sometimes called Transborder gates in Canada), go through security, then immigration/customs, then you will take your flight to the US, where you will arrive as a domestic passenger.
B: Flying to the US via a preclearance airport in another country
Here, you will take your first flight as an international flight, but at your layover, you will still have to follow signs to US gates, go through security again, then immigration/customs, then finally take your flight to the US, where you will arrive as a domestic passenger.
PLEASE NOTE: You CANNOT under any circumstances leave a preclearance zone once you go through US immigration. You are technically already in the United States, meaning that if you were to leave the preclearance zone, you'd be entering the country of the airport illegally. The only way to mitigate this issue is to go through the immigration/customs of the layover airport's country, and this is only ever granted in special circumstances. Only enter the preclearance zone if you are waiting for your flight, but give yourself enough time because lines are often long.
4:24 I had an example of this, Toronto to San Jose (Costa Rica) via Houston both ways. I did have to go through US customs and say I was in transit to the final destination.
I've booked flights home to Philadelphia from Hawaii and purchased each leg separately (OGG to SFO, then SFO to PHL) with 3 days in between, so that my layover was a weekend trip in between my trip home. Not really a layover, just breaking up the trip home into separate trips. That was easy to do in San Francisco. My first trip to Hawaii via LAX however, was crazy. I had a 2-hour layover in LAX but had to exit the airport, get on a shuttle, then go through LAX again in the International Terminal, which meant more security, and then to my gate for Maui. I guess someone forgot to tell LAX that Hawaii was still part of the USA.
I like to consider myself an experienced flyer but considering the fact that I've been stuck two days in an airport twice because of bad planning from my part, I probably needed to watch this video.
As usual KhAnubis, great video on an important topic that people don't really think about!
2:50 would be a good time to point out that mobile passport exist and it's basically a CBP app that you complete your declarations forms on and just makes the whole process 10x quicker as you get to go through a special line where you present the QR code to get scanned. Just one of those gems that makes your life far easier
Sssshhh. The fewer people that know about mobile passport the shorter the special line will be. I generally zip through passport control at JFK.
I have done transit in Canada as a 3rd country. It was a little confusing since I’m a New Zealander that hadn’t traveled to North America before. I expected it to work the same as Australia, Europe, or Asia. I was travelling Tokyo Haneda to Denver via Vancouver. Rather than going through customs to enter Canada or a transit area, I went through US customs and immigration in while in transit in Vancouver before I departed and entered Denver as if it were a domestic flight. This might be a special case as Denver probably doesn’t get many international flights. I did not have to collect my bags in Vancouver, they checked all the way from Tokyo but I was required to have an ESTA for BOTH the US and Canada before departing Tokyo (despite never entering Canada). Otherwise the transit area was like anywhere else in the world and used Canadian dollars (despite being behind US customs).
Anyone who enters Canada via a plane needs ESTA. I think it’s just a cash grab for those connecting passengers, especially when you consider that I didn’t need ESTA when traveling by land.
I’m not even sure I needed one. I went straight from the international arrivals (through US customs) to the transit area. I never went through Canadian customs or entered Canada. If I did this in Hong Kong for example, I would not need any documents for the local government. I still have no idea if it was required for that or if the check in counter simply wouldn’t let me leave Japan without it.
Do u know if I need US visa if I'm doing connection flight there? I checked and I'm not part of the ESTA list of countries, I mean I need visa for entering US but I don't know if I need visa for making connecting flight in US :(
@@anamilenacanote529 Honestly, I have no idea. My destination was in the US and I had already visited Hawaii and completed the ESTA process (an an NZ citizen). I didn't even consider getting a visa for Canada but the airline check-in counter would not let me board my flight unless I had one. I was lucky to be able to do it online (and it's cheaper than the US one). Check with your airline and local US embassy/consulate before departing to be sure. Embassy websites are also helpful. You can be required to have a visa for transit, Australia for example does this for muslim-majority countries.
Transit between different airports in the same city can be done. Just give yourself a lot of time. Transit by train between Incheon and Gimpo (Seoul) or Haneda and Narita (Tokyo) is simple and convenient. People do it all the time.
I’m glad I have transit airports such as
Singapore Changi
Dubai
Doha
From Sri Lanka
I go through Hong Kong all the time. I know exactly which bus takes me to the restaurant I like for lunch. I go through immigration and customs, but when I continue on I don’t have to get my bags and recheck them. HKG has special lines for international transfers that avoid immigration entirely, but most of the time my layovers are intentionally long enough to leave the airport to catch the bus to lunch. HK immigration takes me 30 seconds or so (thanks e-channel!).
Yeah, I know there’s Airport Express trains, but the bus has a nice view on the ride from Lantau into the city and it goes directly to the restaurant (and directly back after).
FYI: Boston Logan, has 4 terminals, A, B, C are domestic (minus a few exceptions, mostly pre-cleared flights- arrivals only, never departures) and E for International. There are walkways, pre and post-security, and shuttle buses pre-security.
I’m flying Oregon to Illinois in July with a layover in Michigan and I’m already an anxious mess LOL this helped a little though!
Thanks I'm visiting my sister in Yuma on the thirteenth of December and it's my first time flying alone with a lay over
I love the subtle PDX carpet touch.... :-)
Important thing to remember about layovers: remember timezones! Don't be the guy who thought he had a two-hour layover when it was only one hour and ends up stuck in North Carolina for 7 hours because he forgot he was in the Eastern Time zone, and not Central like his origin point and destination.
_Totally_ not speaking from personal experience.
One thing I've noticed at NRT, ICN DMK and BKK: Unannounced, seemingly unnecessary security checks (long lines) can appear out of nowhere. I always allow 2 hrs minimum between flights (assuming baggage is checked through to final destination).
It will also depend on your passport if your layover country will give you a visa on arrival for an excursion day. And beware if you’re going to have a connection flights you might need a transit visa such as in the USA
Some flights from Canada to the US have customs during the layover. On my flight from Vancouver to Miami, I had a layover in Toronto as there’s no direct flights. While I was in Toronto however, I went through American customs before my flight and not when I landed in Miami.
On Domestic flights with layovers, you Shouldn't have to go through security again, but I was made to when I flew from Buffalo to Washington by way of Boston on Jetblue. I ended up barely making my connecting flight.
During my first trip to Disney World, I flew on Delta from Newark EWR to Orlando but had a stop in Atlanta, the world's busiest airport. It was hectic. They kept changing gates (making us walk back and forth several times), changed planes, it was severely delayed, and there were a lot of people. It was awful. And what did they give us after all of that? ORANGE JUICE, a small glass of orange juice. Thanks, Delta. We also had a connection in Cincinnati (although the airport is actually in Kentucky) on the way back but that one was fine and relaxed because we had no problems there
Changing gates can be a bit of a problem in Europe, too. Gates are only announced about two hours before the flight, with passengers expected to wait in a common area beforehand (wish I had known that my first few times). I do remember being in Istanbul-Atatürk airport and finally finding my gate to Berlin, only for it to switch to Baghdad (or probably Medina, I don't fully remember) and making us find the Berlin gate all over again.
Yes I think he changed it because some guy attacked him telling him to go back to Cuba because he's a "commie"
Amer _Freestyle No I changed it to keep my name and information about me more private
Everyone already knows your name
Check in online or the airline’s mobile app and you can bypass getting the paper boarding passes.
Currently watching as I have a 1.5 hour layover in Beijing airport. This will be my first time flying alone :D
I never flew lay over but my first layover will be in 2019 Air China melbounre to beijing stop 9 hours and then beijing to vancouver
i love how all these aviation videos are coming before i go on a vacation
For me it's THE FUCKING OPPOSITE!
As long as you look up your flight number & gate number you should have no problem getting to your next airplane on time plus charge up your devices & have movies downloaded in case there's a long wait.
this was actually so helpful! thank you!
Thank you for using Portland. I am flying from Portland to Seoul
One thing you missed, and I’ve experienced this myself, is on some international flights with a layover in another country you may only have to clear customs/immigration in one of the countries depending on the country. I connected through Zurich on my flight to Rome, and we did immigration in Zurich but we didn’t have to do customs/immigration when we got off the Zurich-Rome flight. On my Ecuador trip, I connected through bogota both ways and in bogota passengers connecting from one international flight to another didn’t have to do customs/immigration. As for connecting from one international flight to non-US international flight in Canada (from my experience, and in Toronto at least), you do clear immigration but you don’t have to clear customs.
Can't wait to get on my first flight
For my dad, he had a nightmare time. He had a flight delay at Laguardia, but this time, when his flight got delayed, the check-in agent told him that he was going to get a missed connection at Atlanta, which means my dad had to take another Delta flight from JFK to Amsterdam and had another airline operated by Delta going to Nigeria and that's what happened
yes, the Istanbul new airport is very far from the busy areas,and very far from Sabiha gokcen airport as well
The most important thing about a connecting flight: both flights need to be booked on the same itinerary or passenger reference code (i.e. booked at the same moment and you entering both your origin and final destination in the "book a flight" page). If you book them separately (even a few minutes a apart from each other and on the same website), they won't be treated as connecting flights.
IF ONLY YOU TOLD ME THIS BEFORE I WENT ON MY FLIGHT FROM SYDNEY TO CHICAGO VIA VANCOUVER!
Here was me going from Kansas City, USA to İzmir, Türkiye. Kansas City -> Philadelphia -> London -> İstanbul -> İzmir. Yeah... that was... fun.
I live in western South Dakota so every time I have to fly to somewhere I have to go to say Dallas, Charlotte, or Minneapolis and Denver
Related: Anthony Bourdain's The Layover is the greatest show ever.
This is super useful, thank you!!!
I can smell this video has essence of Wendover. I like it
I literally read this comment just seconds after reading a Twitter response saying that he thought this was a Wendover video at first.
@@KhAnubis haha that's awesome! I love your videos keep it up!!
1:22 is that a sound from papers, please?
I was gonna comment that
1:23 I'm so hard-wired to hate that sound I got PTSD from hearing it.
That's the papers please typewriter sound, when you get a citation from the glorious Ministry of Admission. So, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO BE SICK OF THIS SOUND! You WILL be sent to gulag! GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!
For 3:25 you should have given an example of Germany to Thailand with layover at UAE on Emirates.
Before flight you just need to print 2 boarding passes, pass through immigration, once at UAE just go to the gate to your destination then you will be on your way to Thailand, you will just need to fill up embarkation card and/or custom card from your destination.
Thanks for the information on layovers, but my parents and I are flying nonstop from Newark to Los Angeles on Sunday, October 22, 2023, anyway.
Explained everything so well and missed or never mentioned anything about Visa or at least Transit Visa. This is the kind of videos that I would be fooled if I am not aware of anything...
Thank you so much , your video is very helpful
I First Fly From Dhaka to Doha Then Doha to Frankfurt 🥵 So I got this Experience from my First Flight
Hey whats the longest layover you have been in
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Mine is 17 hours in South Korea
36 hours Brazil.
6-8 hours Panama
28 hours Dubai.
Mine is 10 hours in Boston
Loel Azarcon Mine is 2 hours in Amsterdam 😂😂
@@johnc916 mine was 2 hours in Cairo
Samnan Khalid I live in Boston and hate that airport. I fell bad for you.
Very useful video!
I heard rumours that one is supposed to go through the US Customs (pre-clearance) in London and not in Seattle.
As of yet, there are no US Preclearance facilities in the UK. Only in some cities in Canada, the Caribbean countries, Ireland, and Abu Dhabi.
@@KhAnubis Wow. This is unexpected, considering that the UK is arguably the USA's closest ally, second to none but Israel.
The US are pushing for pre-clearance areas in several European countries, and they probably are getting that sooner than later, but it hasn't happened yet.
Good info. but noone explains you the security area, the stress you feel there and how to avoid some of it.
Good info. If its a long layover like 17 hours, if youbstep out of the airport do you have to bring your checked in bags?
Depends on your route. If both legs are flown by the same airline they'll probably check your bags all the way through automatically. If you are given your bags back at the second airport (i.e. changing airlines, customs, etc.) then you might be given the option to re-check your bags
Take this advice with a grain of salt though, as I am someone who tries to avoid checking bags as much as possible
How about my checked bags on a 20hr layover at Hawaii HNL from Chicago..if i want to explore Hawaii, where should i leave my checked bags?
I took a flight from LA to Munich with a layover in Moscow and man was that a looking stressful, tired, shitty day
Wendover Productions right now: "Hey! Stop stealing my moves!"
That Portland carpet 😍
I got to visit munich on my way to Tbilisi on a 10 hour layover
if i fly from houston to italy,with two layovers,first one being 41 minutes in chicago then the second in london for three hours,what do you suggest i do.im mainly just scared about my luggage being left behind.
I have a flight from Portland to London but have a layover in Canada. My layover is only an hour long, do you think that will be enough time to have to go through customs again? I'm very nervous lmao
What about the luggage during the extended layover? can we take it with us to out of the airport or not ??
That sorta depends on the airport and what country you're going through. Generally your checked baggage continues through the airport (if you're staying the night in the city, your bag is spending the night in the airport), but there are some exceptions, like if your layover sees you entering the US (e.g. Paris to New York to St. Louis), because they give you your bag so it's on you during customs, after which you can presumably take it with you before re-checking it.
Would you recommend that I get out the airport when i have a 5hr layover in the states ?
Books flight to Bali. Ends up in South Dakota :(
You sure do love flying!
Good thing to know: Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) now has an official US Customs Station allowing full processing before you even set foot (or wing) in the States. This is the way to return home if you can't stand the cattle-call antics at major US hubs :)
This has been a thing for years and it's not just YYZ. It's canadian airports that fly to the U.S. in general. YUL, YYC, YEG, YHZ,YOW,YVR,YWG all have it.
thanks a lot I was so stressed to travel alone lmao, I have one question. I have a layover of 13 hours in London and I have to go to another airport in London to get in my next plane. Do you know if I have to ask for a Visa since I'm "traveling" in the UK ?
If you are transferring from one airport to another, that means you are leaving the airport, which means you are indeed entering the UK proper and go through immigration, however whether you need a visa to clear immigration depends on your citizenship. I'd recommend looking at the Wikipedia page "Visa requirements for [country on your passport] citizens" or "Visa policy of the United Kingdom"
0:34 成都-based travelers REPRESENT!
I have a problem
I’m flying from
Russia-Doha
2 hour layover
Doha-Seattle
2 hour layover
Seattle-Alaska
What do I do in this scenario?
I’m flying with only one airline so there’s no different airlines
How do I check in?
Do I have to go threw
immigration tsa and stuff?
What about my checked bags,do I recheck them in every time I land? 😊
In in thailand and I have a lay over in Japan and then I go to Canada when I get to Japan do I have to go to a different gate and get on a different flight?
What about flying to London but have a stop in Phoenix from California ..we don’t have to go through security again?
Only if you leave the plane
Is it ok leave the airport and visit the city if I have an 18 hour layover
I’m amazed you mentioned Chengdu
LUGGAGE TIPS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Tie three or four colored ribbons around the handle to your luggage to warn others that this is not their luggage. People grab luggage at the turnstile and take it home before you ever see it.
Anywhere you put your bag, it could be grabbed in error. Example: overhead compartment, unloaded from the bus, at the hotel lobby, at the airport turnstile...
These ribbons make your luggage different and EASY TO SPOT when the piece is surrounded by 35 other cases unloaded from the bus. Using 4 ribbons make it immediately different than other cases with 1 ribbon.
Use 1” wide ribbons 14” long and not longer. Cut the ends at 45 degrees.
Tie the ribbons as a sandwich, as if they were one ribbon. Use a man’s tie, a half Windsor knot for the best look. After it is tied on, the total length of the ribbons will be about 5 inches from the handle. This is too short to catch on anything such as rollers.
Scissor cut trim the ribbons to cascading different lengths after they are tied. Put a drop of Super Glue at the end.
If each ribbon is slightly a different length by 1/4” the color layers will all show up no matter how they drape.
You can see these ribbons from 40 feet away.
Perhaps tie TWO handles or RINGS top and side of the case.
Tie using a HALF WINDSOR KNOT to the metal buckle ring of the handle.
Learn Half Windsor knot tying:
It is the 2nd example in this video
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This knot does not loosen.
Put your phone number on one ribbon using a fine point permanent Sharpie.
Example: “Owner 454-333-7878”
No personal name necessary.
No address necessary on the ribbon.
Choose one ribbon with an unusual pattern or fabric to really make it unique. The 4th ribbon could be black color.
Stand by the output port of the turnstile to reduce the chance of someone else grabbing your piece.
Tie your skiies, duffel bag, backpack and what ever else with matching ribbons-even your computer case.
If you are a Travel Agent, you could hot gold stamp one ribbon with your name and phone number. Send them a set of ribbons, red and blue and BLACK to your customer as a gift. Record this gift in your database so you don’t duplicate yourself.
Buy a gold hot embossing machine. Gold emboss your business name on the BLACK ribbon. Put the customer’s name on it if possible.
Pleasant color combinations:
Red, white and blue
Chartreuse and purple and orange
Orange and light blue
Orange and yellow
Gray and pink
Green and yellow
Red and Green
Red and Gold
Light blue and light green and white
The 4th ribbon could be white, gray, black, tan
Tip #2 Take a cell phone picture of the ribbon tied on. Then another picture of the full luggage piece. You now have a way to communicate “what it looks like” if someone is tasked with searching for it.
You can show this picture to the searcher or attach a picture to your report for lost luggage.
Take this picture outside in direct sun not under neon lights.
Tip #3 Place a strip of colored duct tape on the inside lining to your case. Put TWO pieces in DIFFERENT places such as INSIDE a pocket to the case. If you dare, put your phone number DIRECTLY ON THE FABRIC Liner of the case WITHOUT USING TAPE. Or, put your name and phone number on this tape. If all identity is stripped from your case, you have this to show. If someone steals it and rips off identity tags, you can show the police officer the inside tape...
To be sneaky about the tape, put your phone number on the STICKY side of the tape. Nothing is on the surface side of this tape.
Tip #4
Put your phone number on a 2” x 1/2” piece of fabric or plastic sheet. Use colored Duct tape, such as black or red or neon, to tape this message to the top side of the handle. This message is under the tape hidden from view. The lettering does not touch the sticky part. Wrap it 2-3 times. Also include Tips 1,2,3 above. If you need to prove identity of the case, just unwrap it and show.
Tip #5 ADDING UNIQUENESS
4 ribbons
1 designer ribbon
colored taped handle
stencil SPRAY PAINT a 2 1/2” stencil letter or number or word or your initials to the suit case exterior surface in addition to using all the other ideas here.
Stencil spray paint a letter to the TOP ribbon.
Use ribbons that are wider or more narrow than 1”.
Put a travel sticker on the case.
Tip #6 WEIGH YOUR OWN
Scales accuracy varies at different airports. If you are even 1 pound over, you pay. So, regulate yourself. Found on Ebay, buy a
HAND HELD DIGITAL SCALE
It is less than $15.
Tip #7 GPS TRACKING DEVICE
Duct tape to an inside pocket a GSM GPS Tracking device. Find them on Ebay. Your iphone can tell you where your luggage is.
Is it in another city? ua-cam.com/video/qJkUSNIBsP0/v-deo.html
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Leaving the airport during a layover counts as you entering that country though right?
Wouldn’t that be inadvisable in cases where you have to pay some sort of fee or go through extra procedures to enter the country? Bali has a visiting fee you have to pay for tourists, right? Also you’d need a visa for some places?
theres no airside transfer at us airports generally
Chengdu is one of the best cities I have ever lived in.
The back ground music in the video is the same as risk
It’s funny he’s used South Dakota as an example cuz that’s where I’m going
If I'm traveling by one airline e.g Air India from one country to another..and after the layover over there if I'm getting into another airlines e.g Lufthansa to go to my destination country...is there a possibility to check to luggage..coz the baggage allowance is different for different airlines... should I need to pay extra according to my connecting flight airline?.. please let me know about this
Hello same plz help
i miss the old pdx carpet
I’m 16 first time flying Alone and Im kinda worried about the lay over
Don't worry, as long as you have your boarding pass and flight number, it's actually not that hard at all. Just curious though, where are you flying?
From Belize lay over in Miami then to Lax
I see what you did there! Country eh? 2:03
Thanks for the heart!
I love this channel
What is I am doing UK to Turkey to USA and vice versa?
Like do my bags (checked) get automatically transfered? Or do I have to do it again?
I have a flight albania TIA to Austria VIE then to London Heathrow my layover in Vienna is 35 mins 😭😭😭😭 what do I do I have to go through security it is in the same terminal
Could You please give me some advice because I have the same problem. The layover is about 2 hours but it's in Dubai. Is the layover too short?
I've been in a Layover in Zürich and in Frankfurt.
Deutsch Gang.
My next flight has 5 stopovers. Uughh
Wow, where are you flying to/from? This really made me curious, all of a sudden.
@@KhAnubis so im from edmonton and my original destination is Davao, philippines. I can go with 2 stops, but the price was $2,000+ so i went for the cheapest. So it was Edmonton - Denver - Los Angeles - Narita - Incheon, korea - Manila, Philippines - davao. Over all is 33 hours. Over all 5 stops
The Dominus damn
3:45 That''s a nice touch with the city names in Dutch
I just realized that rhymed
*P A A S E I*
I still don't get it.
What are some of the parts you didn't get?
Did you come to canada?
I see you're a man of Swampletics too
How to get a long layover without more expensive ticket
Sometimes having a long layover can be the cheaper option, though mainly if it's on the same itinerary or you fly one (or both) of the flights with a budget airline.
Your lisp is adorable