Arrival with Etihad Preclearance at T4 and then connecting flight from T2 [closed]
Arrival with Etihad Preclearance from AUH at T4 and then have a connecting flight from T2 (Delta) to Tampa. Can we take the inter terminal bus from T4 to T2 immediately after deboarding. Or is it necessary to exit T4 and then take train / shuttle bus to T2. Please advise Thanks
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Your flight will generally(*) land as if it was a "domestic" flight, and you will be let out into the standard terminal 4 departures area. From there you will be able to catch the Delta Shuttle to terminal 2 if required. You will NOT need to re-clear security.
(*) Generally, because occasionally pre-cleared flights will still be forced to go through some level of immigration or customs control on arrival in the US. This is rare, but can happen. In this case you would need to re-clear security in either T4 or catch the airtrain to T2 and re-clear security there.
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