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Comment by 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.

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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  21 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.

  • mothballed  1 day 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.

    • InitialLastName  21 hours ago

      Border 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.