Left to right: Niall Maloney, Airport Operations Director, Andrew Murphy, Managing Director, Shannon Airport, a Shannon Group company , Clint Lamm, Director of Field Operations, Preclearance Field Office and Michael Balero, Assistant Director of Field Operations, Preclearance Field Office.

US Preclearance Service at Shannon Airport returns

Published: Fri 24 May 2019, 12:10 PM

Last updated: Fri 24 May 2019, 1:13 PM

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it will introduce an out-of-hour’s preclearance service at Shannon Airport, Ireland, beginning on June 1st.

Clint Lamm, Director Preclearance said: “The Preclearance Field Office continues to look for new and innovative ways to provide a secure and efficient transborder process for our closest international partners. There have been requests for CBP to provide enhanced services for business travellers and private aircraft, so we are very pleased that our longstanding relationship with Shannon Airport will once again allow us to deliver.”

The extended hours of operation will be available from June 1st and will initially be between the hours of 8am to 9am and from 5pm to 9pm locally.

Shannon Airport was the first airport in Europe to offer U.S. preclearance services for commercial carriers, initiated in 1986, and subsequently the first in the world to offer full preclearance for private aircraft since 2010. Today, Shannon remains the only airport in North America, Europe and the Middle East providing this unique service.