Elimination or Reduction of Baggage Recheck for Arriving International Passengers (2012) / Chapter Skim
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and non-interlined connections are considered "terminating." Twenty-three million connecting passengers per year could have a demand for baggage recheck facilities, with the large majority (20 million) being domestic connections (e.g., London Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare to Las Vegas)
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In order to truly measure and gauge the opportunities to eliminate or reduce the need for baggage recheck, the research team needed to ensure that a representative sample of current processes was selected. This will be detailed in the following chapter.
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As a baseline, terminating passengers follow Steps 1 through 4 in Figure 3 to exit at arrivals with their checked bags. Transfer passengers, on the other hand, as a baseline proceed through the same four steps, but also have an additional process for baggage recheck through to enplanement for the next flight (Steps 5 through 7)
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Other risk management tools (e.g., canine teams) are also occasionally deployed within the baggage claim area.
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have already reduced baggage recheck for international-to-international connections. • Forty-two FIS facilities have baggage recheck facilities located immediately after CBP clearance processing.
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Procedures are in place to manage risk and to route bags to CBP Secondary Processing as needed. The other 90 percent of passengers not exempt from being reunited with their checked bags are from Preclearance facilities in foreign countries for admission to the United States.
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