Speaking of the infamous Customs procedure. What most of us used to do is carry a book of Customs forms and fill them out in cruise flight and stick it in our hats or pockets. "Going" thru Customs/INS was actually pretty painless "most of the times" and it would take you no more than 5 minutes including going thru the INS guy upsatirs and the customs guy downstairs. Every now and then they would "select" you for a random bag search and they would briefly go through your stuff and let you be on your way, that would add another 5 or so minutes and would probably happen to you 10 to 12 times average in a year. Again not a big deal. What messes this procedure is the looooong walk just to get there (again see my post on this somewhere above) and then the long walk just to get back to the Eagle lounges. In all going through customs and back to Eagle takes about 15 to 20 minutes tops, unless you're clearing behind Iberia or any other International crew which is before you, then you are SOL and will have to wait until all 10 to 15 of them have cleared !!!! We actually ran to the INS guy when we saw a Iberia/Lufthansa herd coming from the other side in order to beat them LOL !!! I also suggest to all to get a good bag with nice wheels and strap everything to it, you'll be glad you did.

Flytank