Travel Like a Head of State
When a foreign dignitary lands, someone meets them at the jetway. The rest of us queue up with everyone else. There’s a middle option.
When a foreign dignitary lands, someone meets them at the jetway. The rest of us queue up with everyone else. There’s a middle option.
The CBP agents had gotten so efficient at processing planeful after planeful of returning Americans that I rarely waited more than fifteen minutes. Then came the occasional arrival push — our flight plus three others, half the stations inexplicably unmanned — and fifteen minutes turned into an hour. That’s when Global Entry started looking like a reasonable investment rather than a convenience for people with more money than patience.