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0 pointsbillfruit1y ago0 comments

And since many US airports do not have facilities for 'sterile transfers', people will require a US C1 Transit Visa to travel connecting through US.

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gruturo1y ago

This is deliberate. To my knowledge, absolutely no US airports allow you to transit without going through immigration, and stopovers in the US are very hard to avoid because the FAA imposes a hefty fee to flights over the country unless they stop at a US airport.

So it's very expensive to overfly the US without landing, and once you land you can't avoid immigration even if you are just transiting on your way to another country.

winter_blue1y ago

> the FAA imposes a hefty fee to flights over the country

The overland fee is $61.75 per 100 nautical miles (and it's a lower $26.51 per 100 nautical miles)[1]. Is this really that high? Let's say a flight from Canada to Mexico has to cross 1600 nautical miles overland the US. That would cost 16 x 61.75 = $988. Isn't that pretty low? On a flight with 200 passengers, that's an extra $5 per passenger.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/international_aviation/overf...

tailspin20191y ago

This has got me wondering how many flights currently fly over Greenland…

jnsaff21y ago

There are no airports in the US where you can transfer between two international flights without entering the US.

josephg1y ago

Are they hard to get? I’d expect transferring through the US to be significantly easier than travelling into the US for a conference.

klausa1y ago

They require issuance of paper visas and an in-person interview. It's _easier_ than B1/B2 visas; but in the overall scheme of things not _that_ much easier.

mikepurvis1y ago

For a person deliberately avoiding the US (whether out of principle or otherwise), I can't imagine a trip through customs for a transfer would be acceptable either.

4ndrewl1y ago

idk this. Thank you.

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