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> For EU flights especially you still check passports at the gate - indeed it's the only place they are checked. Which countries? I fly a lot NL<>ES, ES<>DE an
by tluyben2 7y ago
> For EU flights especially you still check passports at the gate - indeed it's the only place they are checked.
Which countries? I fly a lot NL<>ES, ES<>DE and they don't check my passport usually. I do take it because sometimes they ask for it, but mostly they don't.
The UK obviously being the outlier; very paranoid with extremely old scanners so security takes a long time, especially at Heathrow.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoThey only have to check at entry to Schengen zone, which the UK and Ireland are outside.
- isostatic 7y agoI was talking about BA flights. BA check passports at the gate to all destinations aside from domestic UK ones (and maybe London-Dublin -- I haven't done that flight) I don't believe they run any inter-schengen or other "domestic" flights, and the 5th freedom flights they do run are like Singapore to Sydney so attract passport viewing. Security is irelevent to BA's problems.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoSome countries have an agreement with each other where the passport check isn’t required. For instance I believe Norway and Sweden have one because they are part of the Nordic Passport Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union