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The ground crew that check people's papers during boarding are not the same crew who are on the flight. Copenhagen Airport has a separate area for non-Schengen
by Svip 3y ago
The ground crew that check people's papers during boarding are not the same crew who are on the flight. Copenhagen Airport has a separate area for non-Schengen flights. He may "simply" have arrived from a non-Schengen origin and then avoided leaving through passport control and gone on a different flight, somehow.
- throwaway290 3y ago> The ground crew that check people's papers during boarding are not the same crew who are on the flight Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't
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- crooked-v 3y ago> and gone on a different flight, somehow At every airport I've been to, the entire barrier to entry for various jet bridges is one or two people keeping an eye on the crowd. I can imagine a lot of scenarios where the entryway ends up unattended, even if just for thirty seconds.
- gorbypark 3y agoI once arrived in Vancouver on an international flight from Europe and somehow they messed up the "routing" of passengers and everyone just walked out to the baggage carousels for domestic flights without going through customs at all! After a few minutes the employees realized what happened and they just brought over a few custom inspectors to the "exits" (it was really just a low wall with plants separating the carousels and the doors to the outside) and checked passports of people leaving, but a number had already left and they didn't even have a computer or anything, they just manually checked the passports. It's possible they only let Canadian through this way and directed foreign passports back to a real customs area, I don't exactly remember. It was pretty bizarre and only about 10 years ago now. Mistakes do happen!
- vertis 3y agoIt's possible to get into the UK without a (UK) passport check if you go via Ireland. They treat the Dublin ferries and planes like domestic flights, they still check the passport at boarding and one presumes with it being computerised they still know you've entered the country (unless of course someone does what this guy just did). There were signs up in Manchester that if you didn't have a UK / Irish passport (we travel on AU passport) that you're supposed to approach someone, but no-one guarding the exit. Ha ha honour system. Doubly so if you drive across the border from Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland, since they're legally not allowed to based on the Good Friday agreement. In some ways this is less what we want because as tourists that spend a bunch of time in the UK I actually want someone to tell me I'm complying with the law.
- Eavolution 3y agoYou say they check passports between Dublin and GB, but I'm a Northern Irish guy who took the car over the ferry from Belfast to Stranraer then back from Holyhead to Dublin, I didn't even think about bringing my passport with me. The height of customs was on the Dublin from Holyhead side, they got me to roll down my window and asked me what my nationality was.
- raverbashing 3y agoBut usually you need to go through security again even if re-connecting to a Non-Schengen flight destination. I've experienced this in several schengen airports (but not specifically CPH) First thing they should do is check the airport cameras (edit: they did), and given that this person has identification from some countries I'd say you have a good clue of what has happened "and street maps of “an unknown foreign city.”" Humm I think there are certain people that might help with this
- lmm 3y ago> But usually you need to go through security again even if re-connecting to a Non-Schengen flight destination. No you don't. Only if you went to a different terminal or something. You can very easily stay in the airside area (indeed this is exactly what you're meant to do if you're taking a connecting flight).
- raverbashing 3y ago"No you don't" is not the case in neither FRA, CDG or AMS, I assume CPH is the same, though I never did this specifically at this airport - you have to go through x-ray and sometimes there are some boarding pass or passport checks But if you have specific experience in this airport I'm all ears
- Symbiote 3y agohttps://www.cph.dk/en/practical/cph%20map https://www.cph.dk/en/practical/cph%20map Arriving passengers end up in the general departure/arrivals hall, either inside or outside the Schengen zone depending on where they originate. There's no security check for transferring passengers.
- jnsaff2 3y agoAs far as I know (having gone through a security training to get an airport pass): it depends. There are mutual security standards audits and inspections after passing them one airport (or aviation authority) accepts the other one’s security screenings and then you don’t need to go through security again at the intermediate airport. So traveling quite a bit you will find weird things.
- throwaway4good 3y agoThe article mentions that he might have been in Kiel, Germany recently. And getting into the non-Schengen area via another flight would require a proper passport and visa as the flight would originate in a non-Schengen country.
- Svip 3y agoOr he might have been going to Kiel, and came in from an non-Schengen origin to catch a connecting flight in Copenhagen to Kiel.
- ShellfishMeme 3y agoKiel has a tiny airport that doesn't have any scheduled services, but they have a large port with ferry and cruise terminals.
- throwaway4good 3y agoBut flying from say the UK to Denmark would require him to have a passport and a visa (checked in the UK).
- Svip 3y agoMore likely he flew from Israel to Denmark given his documents, but when he said he left his passport on the plane, it might have been the first plane.
- BerislavLopac 3y ago> He may "simply" have arrived from a non-Schengen origin Wouldn't he still need a passport to get on this first flight anyway?
- quickthrower2 3y agoMaybe he knows someone working at an airport
- saiya-jin 3y agoOn most if not all flights I can recall I've ever taken I see same people doing check-in and taking baggage and then standing on the gate, often its the same person who took the baggage and letting me through for smaller/low cost airlines. This covers Europe but also some other parts of the world, albeit of course its not exhaustive coverage.
- lencastre 3y agoBlowing the dust of the ol' tin foil hat and dialing conspiracy theory a notch or three... the article is so vague on details that I presume that this was no accident and actually a coordinated effort to get this person in the US. Whether the task was successful maybe we'll learn in a decade or so.