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Almot. Did you speak with biduy? I have a quote of $890 for 42 ft. Mh and truck toad. Flight is $80 per person. I do not think it is a 3 passenger unit. The testing problems at the Canadian side has nothing to do with any of us going South
Many of your BC residents are quite pleased with Bidbuy and are using them for the second time. Same for Quebecers. Never believe what you read on Facebook . But I am sure that many Americans are having problems getting their ducks in a row. Canada should accept the rapid test. The 3 day window for the pcr test makes the crossing difficult. Maybe the reason for keeping the US border closed is because Jupiter is not aligned with Mars.

Almot wrote:

moisheh wrote:
"End Of U.S. Travel Ban Hits Complications–Might It Be Delayed?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/10/10/end-of-us-travel-ban-hits-complicationsmight-it-be-delayed/amp/

Although the above is about flights it probably applies to land borders. Not looking good. At this rate it might never open.

I told you, they are not ready :).

FB group on CAN-US border issues are talking about US struggling to meet Canadian PCR test requirement, people tested within 72 hours can't get results before their flight (or Americans now before their drive to Canada), or can't get an appointment on time, many locations are appointment-only. UK require PCR test too. This is still not the reason for land border closure, car traveller has no flight to miss, will spend another day in the US and drive. Just shows that they are not prepared.

I'm not buying the relation to South border illegal immigrants, those are not using designated crossings or documents. Might cause the shortage of manpower at the North border, but the main problem is they are not prepared to process legal travellers under these new conditions.

Meanwhile, cheap car-shipping at BC-WA border is sold-out until December. Bidbuy is available but not cheap, $890 for just a car without RV, plus $510 for 3-seat air charter.

What you say, not being ready, might be true if the reason for the border closure is due to Covid.

The land border closure has nothing to do with covid. The USA could open the land border TODAY, just like Mexico.

Testing is an excuse. Covid is the excuse. Manpower is an excuse. Hopefully folks will see what really is going on and put a stop to this nonsense.

moisheh wrote:
"End Of U.S. Travel Ban Hits Complications–Might It Be Delayed?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/10/10/end-of-us-travel-ban-hits-complicationsmight-it-be-delayed/amp/

Although the above is about flights it probably applies to land borders. Not looking good. At this rate it might never open.

I told you, they are not ready :).

FB group on CAN-US border issues are talking about US struggling to meet Canadian PCR test requirement, people tested within 72 hours can't get results before their flight (or Americans now before their drive to Canada), or can't get an appointment on time, many locations are appointment-only. UK require PCR test too. This is still not the reason for land border closure, car traveller has no flight to miss, will spend another day in the US and drive. Just shows that they are not prepared.

I'm not buying the relation to South border illegal immigrants, those are not using designated crossings or documents. Might cause the shortage of manpower at the North border, but the main problem is they are not prepared to process legal travellers under these new conditions.

Meanwhile, cheap car-shipping at BC-WA border is sold-out until December. Bidbuy is available but not cheap, $890 for just a car without RV, plus $510 for 3-seat air charter.

As I said before watch the Southern Border USA immigration issue. Until there is some resolution, the border will remain closed via CDC covid health order. Again local Network News reports are not good about problems on the AZ/MX border. The border is going to closed until 2022 or later unless there is a successful court challenge to the CDC Order. OR US Congress takes up the immigration issue, which maybe never. AND CDC can't justify closing one border without closing the other. That is real life in the USA!

rocmoc n Th SouthWest.

"End Of U.S. Travel Ban Hits Complications–Might It Be Delayed?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/10/10/end-of-us-travel-ban-hits-complicationsmight-it-be-delayed/amp/

Although the above is about flights it probably applies to land borders. Not looking good. At this rate it might never open.

Maybe we should be thinking out of the box. How about going by the sea? San Diego to Ensenada is 60 nautical miles. Disney has a 2 day cruise. There is no shuttle and I think only a cruise is acceptable. American flies from HMO to PHX. So near and yet so far.

silversand wrote:
this is interesting, a *charter* from Tijuana TIJ to SDM municipal (just a 14 minute flight). On a twin turboprop Beechcraft King Air 90 today; the company owning the aircraft is: TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC:

Takeoff:

TIJ
TIJUANA, MEXICO
FRIDAY 08-OCT-2021
17:10 PDT

Landing:

SDM
SAN DIEGO, CA
FRIDAY 08-OCT-2021
17:24 PDT

The tail number on this aircraft is: N94BA
All this aircraft's registration, ownership and details are here-->

Interesting. How do you find these flights? Charters that I could find in TIJ don't tell anything until you fill the form with your name, date, email and number of passengers. If they only fly on-demand and the demand is low, it means you either pay for all 7-8 seats or get marooned in Tijuana until somebody else flies - and then maybe pay for return empty leg too. Flightradar 24 shows that last time they flew this route 2 days ago, so not the highest demand.

Moisheh, I'm going from Vancouver to Baja and back. For shipping a car, the closest return airport on Mex side is TIJ. All commercial flights from TIJ to USA go via Mexico city or Guadalajara, 10 hours trip to LAX.
Flight TIJ-Vancouver via the same Mexico city is only 1.5 hour longer, might as well forget about car. Going South is easier yet, direct flight Vancouver - San Diego.

Calexico isn't bad for driving to Vancouver from, but again, all commercial flights to the US from Mexicali go via major hubs like Guadalajara or Mexico city. Minimum 10 hours flight to the closest commercial airport. Need a charter, but this route is not as heavily trafficked as Can/US border where shared charters are full every day and therefore cheap. Car shipping and charter sucks anyway, much pain, much time lost.

Maybe I will be able to drive North in Spring, maybe not, who can tell? There is some logic in domestic restrictions in Canada - doesn't bother me, I'm vaccinated. But there is no logic in keeping the US border closed. It hurts both economies and has nothing to do with the epidemic, there are 4 times less new cases per capita in Canada than in the US.

Border communities like Nogales az suffer. Even the merchants in Tucson rely on Mexican customers. No one in the US is safer with the border closed.

People here in Mexico would love for the U.S. border to be open as well.

"The economies of U.S. border communities have suffered losses of US $10 billion since March 2020 due to the inability of many Mexicans to cross the border to go shopping, eat in restaurants and fill up their cars, according to a study by José Iván Rodríguez Sanchez of the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University in Texas."