Airfares to US to drop?

[BCons]

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the chilling effect it has on all travelers."

www.wired.com

 

[Aussie_flyer]

How many people travelled in the 3 months in 2022 vs 2025? A heck of a lot less. Particularly since it was q1 and people just weren't back to travelling then post COVID.

 

[Haplo]

I am looking at flying to Miami next year for work, and airfares are still around 15k on american airline.

ANA is doing for 10k so i'll be taking a "long indirect" route to get there.

 

[RSD]

I am looking at flying to Miami next year for work, and airfares are still around 15k on american airline.

ANA is doing for 10k so i'll be taking a "long indirect" route to get there.

You might want to read the post earlier in this thread about the guy that flew JAL or CX from Oz to the U.S....

 

[jase05]

You might want to read the post earlier in this thread about the guy that flew JAL or CX from Oz to the U.S....

Far too many scare tactics and beat ups by the media IMO.
We visited the US a couple of months back and went ADL-KUL-DOH-CAI-FRA-IAD and arrival at IAD was faster and smoother than anything I’ve witnessed at most countries including when we return to Australia. No line up at immigration and lady checked my passport, took my fingerprints and waved me on, not a single question or inquiry about our itinerary. No checking of phones, laptops etc.
Was our first time and after hearing the horror stories I was expecting worse. We departed the US a few days later for the Caribbean and due to circumstances had to return to the US the next day and again a seemless experience

 

[SYD]

You might want to read the post earlier in this thread about the guy that flew JAL or CX from Oz to the U.S....

It was CX and were doing very similar in a few weeks. Not at all concerned.

 

[Forg]

Far too many scare tactics and beat ups by the media IMO.
We visited the US a couple of months back and went ADL-KUL-DOH-CAI-FRA-IAD and arrival at IAD was faster and smoother than anything I’ve witnessed at most countries including when we return to Australia. No line up at immigration and lady checked my passport, took my fingerprints and waved me on, not a single question or inquiry about our itinerary. No checking of phones, laptops etc.
Was our first time and after hearing the horror stories I was expecting worse. We departed the US a few days later for the Caribbean and due to circumstances had to return to the US the next day and again a seemless experience

I suspect, especially given all the comments I’ve read & heard about their TSA & CBP over the years, that Bad Things have always been happening to people entering the USA, it just wasn’t newsworthy before the Orange Menace (“chill out, guy!”) started making really loud noises about That Sort Of Stuff.

Could it happen to someone innocently entering the USA? Yes, and it always could have. It’s just not a risk you considered before. We know that appearing to have a family background from the Middle East currently gets you targeted there, like the young lady from Western Sydney who was trying to visit her Marine Corps fiancé in Hawaii … but it probably has for decades.

Is it more likely now? Probably not, not for anyone who hasn’t drawn attention to themselves publicly in ways their current administration doesn’t like. You wouldn’t want to be someone who’s been protesting against human rights violations outside the US Consulate for the last 3 months, but then I doubt you’d find many AFF members who have.