Another question
My flight leaves Dublin for Atlanta on Sunday 11th April at 10:20 AM.
Do you know if Delta clear immigration/customs in Dublin for this flight? I see on other posts that not all flights use pre-clearance in Dublin due to congestion in T1. Except for AerLingus who don't currently use pre-clearance at all.
Not all flights to USA have pre-clearance but from what I have heard all Delta flights do have this in place.
Even if you have to change terminals (and I think all Delta flights depart from the same terminal), it is a very quick ride on a mono-rail. So unless your first flight is considerably late, you should be ok.
Just be aware that you will have to go to Terminal E if you want Duty-Free no matter which terminal you are flying from which is a bit of a pain (well that was the case two years ago; hopefully different now). In case you don't know, it is not like Irish airports where you just buy and take your duty-free; In USA airports, you buy the duty-free and they then bring it to your departure gate where you collect it.
One work of caution, on the DUB - ATL leg, we had to pass our checked in baggage to security. This meant waiting 30 min in Arrival hall to collect our bags and pass them to connecting domestic flight to RSW.
Return trip did not require collecting checked in bags as the RSW - ATL is a domestic flight., Figure that one????
It wasn't security it was US customs. It is a rule in the US that you have to physically carry your bags through customs at your first arrival point in the US even if you're only transitting through the US
I would imagine it's to stop you bringing restricted goods into the country?
When I did it (DUB-ATL-MCO with Delta) I carried my bag from one conveyor belt to another. It may have been scanned after that but certainly not while it was in my possession. It would seem simpler to automatically check the bags through and scan then while they're doing that. Oddity.
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