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> I’d hazard that this may be true now, but this feeling was created by the same “security measures” we’re discussing. Slight tangent but I recall travelling w
by scott_w 8mo ago
> I’d hazard that this may be true now, but this feeling was created by the same “security measures” we’re discussing.
Slight tangent but I recall travelling within the Schengen Zone for the first time and just walking off the plane and straight into a taxi. When I explained what I did to someone she asked "but what about security? How do they know you've not got a bomb?" I don't think I had the words to explain that, if I did manage to sneak a bomb onto the plane into Madrid, I was probably not going to save it for the airport after I landed...
- kelnos 8mo agoEr, I don't get it. I do the same thing at every airport in the US: walk off the plane and straight into a taxi.
- rkomorn 8mo agoI think they're talking about international travel and not having to go through border control within the Schengen space even though you're traveling to different countries.
- mothballed 8mo agoI flew once from Iraq to Sweden (in a private capacity). There was zero controls other than stamping the passport, passport control but no customs inspection. No check of bags and no question of what I might have been doing in Iraq or why I would go from there to Sweden. It was shocking. Just welcome to sweden and off to the street. Hopefully they haven't changed. It's nice to see a place still left without the paranoia.
- InitialLastName 8mo agoBorder entry at airports is concerned with a) smuggling and b) immigration control. Passport control may have been all you saw but there was almost certainly heavy profiling and background checking going on behind the scenes. If you had matched a more suspicious pattern than "high-power passport without suspicious history flying an unusual route", you likely would have faced more scrutiny.
- ghaff 8mo agoYes, but border control isn't security. I don't go through security when I arrive in the US either. (I do have global entry but that just means I usually go through immigration faster.) If I have a connecting flight after arriving in the US I do sometimes have to go through security again with my carryon but that's a function of airport layout.
- rkomorn 8mo agoLooks like even OP was confused about it so I guess it wasn't something to be made sense of.
- scott_w 8mo agoJust to be clear: I understand the difference. What I couldn’t do was explain to someone who has no concept that customs are not a security check. Or that you don’t need customs for (effectively) internal flights. I suspect part of this is that in the UK, we don’t get many internal flights (beyond connections), so people don’t have an experience of just walking off a plane and out of the airport.
- rkomorn 8mo agoYes, I meant you were confused about the nature of the comment/question (like you mentioned in a sibling response somewhere). :)
- graemep 8mo agoI think the point is that some people expect security even where it would be pointless.
- scott_w 8mo agoBasically this. She was confusing Customs with Security, I think.
- scott_w 8mo agoNeither did I, thus why I didn’t really know how to respond.