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Comment by scott_w

1 day 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...

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kelnos  1 day ago

Er, 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  1 day ago

    I 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.

    • ghaff  19 hours ago

      Yes, 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.

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    • mothballed  21 hours ago

      I 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.

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