Enhanced US Preclearance at Shannon Airport: Business jet passengers traveling to the United States via Shannon will soon benefit from enhanced US Preclearance services at the Irish airport.
US Preclearance facilitates passengers on US-bound flights to fully preclear all US immigration and customs controls before leaving Ireland.
Essentially, preclearance allows business jet operators to fly directly from Shannon to over 300 US airports, rather having to go to a designated clearance airport in the US first, making the time- and cost-saving benefits huge.
Shannon Airport was the first airport in the world to offer full US preclearance for Business Aviation and is still the only airport in either Europe or the Middle East with this unique service.
In August 2009 Shannon became the first airport in Europe to have full US Preclearance and operated a US Immigration Pre-inspection facility since 1986.
Currently, US Preclearance at Shannon operates from 9am to 5pm daily, but the upcoming enhancement will extend these hours and offer an out-of-hours service.
The changes are expected to come into effect in the coming months.
Check out our previous blog on the Six Benefits of Tech Stops at Shannon Airport here.
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Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
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