landing question

[ash06]

Hi to all:
My destination is Calgary but I am going to land though Montreal for 3 hours then my plane will take off to calgary do Ineed to do may landing in Montreal because I dont want that I want to do all my paper in calgary when Iland there, can I do that.

 

[aanbaan]

good question...

BUMP...

1. you are going to Calgary via FSW or PNP?
2. your Montreal to Calgary flight is continued international? or are you switching to domestic aircraft? If latter, then they'll expect you to do landing formalities in Montreal,but with an FSW or Alberta PNP, you cannot land in Quebec.

I'll recommend that to be on the safer side, come through British Canada

Leon, PMM, BCGuy, help this person pls...

 

[ash06]

Hi
I have a skilled worker visa and my plane come from Paris and it land in Montreal and we change plane to get to calgary.
So I need to know o I still need to make landing in Montreal or not

 

[Hindu_Sikh_Bro_Bro]

good question...

BUMP...

1. you are going to Calgary via FSW or PNP?
2. your Montreal to Calgary flight is continued international? or are you switching to domestic aircraft? If latter, then they'll expect you to do landing formalities in Montreal,but with an FSW or Alberta PNP, you cannot land in Quebec.

I'll recommend that to be on the safer side, come through British Canada

Leon, PMM, BCGuy, help this person pls...

Where are you aanbaan? Ash06 must be waiting for your answer.

 

[NewYorker]

Hi
I have a skilled worker visa and my plane come from Paris and it land in Montreal and we change plane to get to calgary.
So I need to know o I still need to make landing in Montreal or not

If you have have a FSW visa issued not from Quebec but rest of the Canada then you cannot do landing in Montreal. You just change plane and go to Calgary where you complete your landing. Later you can come back to Quebec whenever you want but cannot do landing there. I have changed plane in the past, but it never pass through immigration, you are just may be changing gates.

Nothing to worry about, just continue your journey to Calgary.

 

[ash06]

thank you very much

 

[PMM]

Hi

Hi
I have a skilled worker visa and my plane come from Paris and it land in Montreal and we change plane to get to calgary.
So I need to know o I still need to make landing in Montreal or not

If you have have a FSW visa issued not from Quebec but rest of the Canada then you cannot do landing in Montreal. You just change plane and go to Calgary where you complete your landing. Later you can come back to Quebec whenever you want but cannot do landing there. I have changed plane in the past, but it never pass through immigration, you are just may be changing gates.

Nothing to worry about, just continue your journey to Calgary.

Sorry you are wrong, all international flights have the "landing" done at the first arrival point. There are no split international/domestic flights in Canada.

PMM

 

[NewYorker]

I am not sure about Canadian rules and not trying to prove that I am correct, I have traveled internationally and if a plane has a stop over and you change plane then there is no need of Immigration, you just change gates and your luggage is transferred into another (new) plane.

May be Canada have different rules. Check with the Airliner.

 

[rupeshhari]

You have to do immigration in your first port of entry in a country. So if you are changing planes in a country, then you have to do immigration in the first place your land. That is true in all the countries that i have been to, including US. This could even be a function of whether the next airport has immigration or not. I don't know what happens if you don't change planes, i.e. the same plane goes to another city in the same country. I haven't been to Canada.

Actually, i have flown into the US, landed fort lauderdale (didn't change planes, didn't do immigration here, presume they had an immigration desk here because people did get off the plane), landed in atlanta (changed planes and had to do immigration) and then flew onto richmond (which has immigration desk but was told to do immigration in atlanta). This was pre-09/11. Rules might have chanced since 2001.

If you are landing and passing through (i.e. not going to stay in that country), then you change planes and no need to do immigration but sometimes, you have to show your visa for the next country as I had to do in Netherlands.

 

[rupeshhari]

Hi

Hi
I have a skilled worker visa and my plane come from Paris and it land in Montreal and we change plane to get to calgary.
So I need to know o I still need to make landing in Montreal or not

If you have have a FSW visa issued not from Quebec but rest of the Canada then you cannot do landing in Montreal. You just change plane and go to Calgary where you complete your landing. Later you can come back to Quebec whenever you want but cannot do landing there. I have changed plane in the past, but it never pass through immigration, you are just may be changing gates.

Nothing to worry about, just continue your journey to Calgary.

Sorry you are wrong, all international flights have the "landing" done at the first arrival point. There are no split international/domestic flights in Canada.

PMM

what is split international/domestic flights? is it when there is an international terminal and a separate domestic terminal.

 

[PMM]

Hi

Hi

Hi
I have a skilled worker visa and my plane come from Paris and it land in Montreal and we change plane to get to calgary.
So I need to know o I still need to make landing in Montreal or not

If you have have a FSW visa issued not from Quebec but rest of the Canada then you cannot do landing in Montreal. You just change plane and go to Calgary where you complete your landing. Later you can come back to Quebec whenever you want but cannot do landing there. I have changed plane in the past, but it never pass through immigration, you are just may be changing gates.

Nothing to worry about, just continue your journey to Calgary.

Sorry you are wrong, all international flights have the "landing" done at the first arrival point. There are no split international/domestic flights in Canada.

PMM

what is split international/domestic flights? is it when there is an international terminal and a separate domestic terminal.

1. It doesn't happen in Canada, but what it is that Plane is going from Paris to Montreal to Winnipeg. All passengers would be examined by Customs/Immigration and then re-board the flight to Vancouver. The flight would then be a domestic flight from Montreal to Vancouver and would arrive at the domestic terminal, where there is no Customs/Immigration. So New Yorker reply is impossible in Canada.

PMM

 

[NewYorker]

OK got it, I was comparing it with the international stopovers, so lets say you are going From LA to Singapore, one stopover in Taiwan, no need of immigration in Taiwan, just change the plane and proceed, next immigration will be in Singapore.

But this flight continued in the same country so the immigration at first point of entry make sense.

In this is the case, you need to change your flight.

 

[PMM]

Hi

OK got it, I was comparing it with the international stopovers, so lets say you are going From LA to Singapore, one stopover in Taiwan, no need of immigration in Taiwan, just change the plane and proceed, next immigration will be in Singapore.

But this flight continued in the same country so the immigration at first point of entry make sense.

In this is the case, you need to change your flight.

No, as long as s/he has proof (plane ticket) from Montreal to somewhere else, there will be no problems with the "landing"

PMM

 

[aanbaan]

All the confusion.

I'll let you know my international experience -

1. WP travel to Calgary (Air Canada) - Hyderabad -> New-Delhi -> Zurich -> Toronto -> Calgary. International boarding given at Delhi & Landing formalities done at Toronto. Same craft went ahead, but i still had to go through immigration and customs. pick the bags, walk through customs and drop the bags on the in-trasnsit belt
2. Travel back (Jet Airways) - Calgary -> Toronto -> London -> New Delhi -> Chandigarh. International boardind done at Calgary. Landing formalities at new Delhi
3. H1 travel to US (Jet Airways) - Hyderabad -> Mumbai -> Brussels -> Newark -> Minneapolis. International boarding given at Hyderabad & Landing formalities done at Newark
4. Travel Back (Jet Airways) - Minneapolis -> Newark ->Brussels -> New Delhi -> Chandigarh. International boardind done at Minneapolis. Landing formalities at new Delhi.


There are 2 more travels and in all occasions the landing formalities take place at the point of 1st stop-over in the country of final destination.

That's why i mentioned earlier, it'll be safer to land on British Canada's soil.

It would be definitely safe if you don't have to get off the aircraft in Montreal.

 

[rupeshhari]

i think PMM, New Yorker and I are agreeing with you.

PMM is saying, you can land in Montreal, do your landing stuff (immigration), but need to show ticket to onwards.

Make sure 3 hours is enough to do everything.

Good luck and enjoy Canada.