Alan
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Recent CBX crossing
Plan ahead because it is taking a little longer than in the past. Southbound in October wasn't too bad but of course it was a 0600 takeoff. However,
northbound last Saturday was a different matter. It took nearly two hours from landing to walking out CBX in Otay Mesa.
Volaris Flt #581 was back to its usual 1630 landing time but now it coincided with a flight from Mexico City and both flights luggage used the same
carousel so it took a bit longer to retrieve our bags. Next there was actually a pretty significant line to get into the CBX corridor since 2 flights
were being processed through. Once in the corridor all the escalators were shutdown? No idea why but that forced everyone to use the elevators which
were limited to four people of immediate family at a time. This resulted in a pretty good line building up at each bank of elevators. When we finally
got to CBP there were only 2 officers to process everyone.
Just thought I would offer a heads up because so many of us have people picking us up from CBX now because it is so convenient
In Memory of E-57
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JZ
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What the hell is up with that.
That better not be normal.
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RocketJSquirrel
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Or... walk the escalator? Unless you have some heavy luggage.
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Alan
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They were actually blocked off with Yellow
Hazard flagging
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BajaBlanca
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Oh, bummer. Please let this be an anomaly.
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mtgoat666
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It’s Mexico, sometimes the escalators don’t work, sometimes the government positions are underfunded/understaffed
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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JZ
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Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  | It’s Mexico, sometimes the escalators don’t work, sometimes the government positions are underfunded/understaffed
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You have never even used the CBX. So pls exit the thread with your generic comments. TIA.
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glad i travel light, my backpack and I made it through on that same Saturday with no line no waiting heading into USA via CBX
the escalator situation was very silly
i never did find a place to get my FMM to tell MX i was leaving the country (temp resident) asked a few MX immigration officials about it but got
nothing but shrugs in return
oh well, turned around and came right back a few hours later, no issues
[Edited on 11-28-2020 by defrag4]
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chuckie
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HORRORS! Inconvenience GRINGOS? How dare they?
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BajaBlanca
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Prepandemic: Last year, right after xmas, my sister and niece took a trip to Mexico City for a week.
Their return to the U.S. was OK, but they almost missed their flight because of the same situation mentioned above. Many, many travelers, not enough
staff and folks were in tears. She said it was total chaos.
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bajatrailrider
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | It’s Mexico, sometimes the escalators don’t work, sometimes the government positions are underfunded/understaffed
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. . California Dmv works so much better  
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mtgoat666
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I have heard people complain about CA DMV, but I have never had a problem with DMV. Has always worked well for me, never had a long wait, paperwork
has always been fine and on time (but I am also smart enough to avoid peak times).
I also have AAA, so sometimes use AAA for stuff...
Sorry you had a bad experience, bajaretread. Perhaps,if you had your chit in order, and could write in intelligible English, then dmv would have
worked out for you, eh?
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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bajatrailrider
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silly blow hard go to AAA office now to reg car . Wait outside side in line for hours . Get real you must be
mixing up your AA meeting you have missed. You post such crap here. Drunk or hung over witch is it or both. 
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On the news a couple weeks ago that the CBX crossing is expanding. I understand, too, from financial news that once pandemic is under control,
pent-up demand for travel of all kinds will explode.
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Bring your Sentri or GE card if you have one. Last time I crossed back north via CBX it took a while, but we could have skipped the customs line
entering the US if we had brought our cards with us.
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| Quote: Originally posted by apple | | Bring your Sentri or GE card if you have one. Last time I crossed back north via CBX it took a while, but we could have skipped the customs line
entering the US if we had brought our cards with us. |
So they have a separate line at CBX? I never noticed it, but there has never really been much of a line anyway..
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Picked up my daughter an son-in-law at CBX last night (Friday 11/27) . Their flight from Cancun-Guadalajara-TJ came in at Midnight.
You would think that it would be a breeze.
NOT
The US Customs wait was an hour and a half! For 95% of the time they only had ONE Agent working the line, which was backed up over the walkway into
the TJ airport.
There were a couple other flights that must have come in late.
CBX had tons of people there and of course the many people coming to pick up their relatives.
There must have been quite a few red-eyes as there were people going INTO the CBX to catch flights at 1 and 2AM
And to make it worse it took them 45 minutes to get their luggage off the carousel. Probably because they had limited baggage guys
Then they wouldn't allow you to take bags down the escalator to Customs, so everybody had to use the elevator! And of course because of Covid they
only allowed a few at a time!
CLUSTER F--K
Maybe research other flights coming in around the time of your flight and make sure a bunch don't show up at around the same time?
Alan
Disclaimer: I have used it myself in the past and have had very fast crosses
[Edited on 11-28-2020 by DawnPatrol]
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