Asiana Club - Transit area ICN

I'll be arriving at ICN via KE then departing two hours later on OZ. I just found out I will have to wait until I get to ICN before I can check in on OZ and have been told the desk is in the Transit area. Is this in the secure portion of the airport or will I have to leave secured area then re-enter?

Transit counters are located in airside.

Thanks. That's good to know.

While they are airside, you still need to pass through security to get to the departure area.

While they are airside, you still need to pass through security to get to the departure area.
Don't therefore carry liquids in any quantity- eg alcohol bought duty free on KE. It would be confiscated. Both KE and OZ use the same terminal so it's straightforward. Just follow signs, go up a level and you're at the Transit Security before entering departures

Don't therefore carry liquids in any quantity- eg alcohol bought duty free on KE. It would be confiscated. Both KE and OZ use the same terminal so it's straightforward. Just follow signs, go up a level and you're at the Transit Security before entering departures

I thought transit counters and security were all on arrivals level?

Wise advice about liquids.

I thought transit counters and security were all on arrivals level?

Wise advice about liquids.

Doesn't really matter whether security is before you go up the steps or after, doesn't it? ;)

Seems strange that you come off one airliner and in order to get to your connecting flight you have to go through security again. Guess I'll live though :)

Seems strange that you come off one airliner and in order to get to your connecting flight you have to go through security again. Guess I'll live though :)

Very common outside the USA.

Doesn't really matter whether security is before you go up the steps or after, doesn't it? ;)

For someone unfamiliar with the airport and/or the proceedings, it might matter.

Seems strange that you come off one airliner and in order to get to your connecting flight you have to go through security again. Guess I'll live though :)

Since no country trust the security checks of another country (and because the might have different rules) you almost always have security when changing planes after arriving from an international flight.

Since no country trust the security checks of another country (and because the might have different rules) you almost always have security when changing planes after arriving from an international flight.

As I think about it, it makes good sense. But it sure is a pain...

As I think about it, it makes good sense. But it sure is a pain...

And of course different airports will subject you to it at different times. Some do it as you go between arrivals and departures (Tokyo for example) and some wait until you get to the gate area(Singapore).

Make sure you have your OZ ticket in order to get through transit security. You can try to print out your OZ BP online ahead of time.

After you get through transit security, you will be in the departure area. The OZ transit counters are one level up from the departure level, across from the OZ business class lounge in the main terminal.

Make sure you have your OZ ticket in order to get through transit security. You can try to print out your OZ BP online ahead of time.

After you get through transit security, you will be in the departure area. The OZ transit counters are one level up from the departure level, across from the OZ business class lounge in the main terminal.

A copy of your itinerary has worked for me as well. They wouldnt give me a BP but I had a print out of my itinerary and ICN security, after reviewing it, let me through so I could get to a transfer counter.

Seems strange that you come off one airliner and in order to get to your connecting flight you have to go through security again. Guess I'll live though :)

Very common at most airports where international connections occur. A real drag. Kind of assumes you've flown one plane from a country where you've been through the security process in order to flow up the plane you're transiting to! Big scam that exists solely to increase the empire of managers for airport security departments and employ tens of thousands of people who otherwise would not find jobs in the outside world!

Very common at most airports where international connections occur. A real drag. Kind of assumes you've flown one plane from a country where you've been through the security process in order to flow up the plane you're transiting to! Big scam that exists solely to increase the empire of managers for airport security departments and employ tens of thousands of people who otherwise would not find jobs in the outside world!

I'll have to admit I got a laugh out of this post. How would you possibly know this for a certainty?

Very common at most airports where international connections occur. A real drag. Kind of assumes you've flown one plane from a country where you've been through the security process in order to flow up the plane you're transiting to! Big scam that exists solely to increase the empire of managers for airport security departments and employ tens of thousands of people who otherwise would not find jobs in the outside world!

Gotta completely disagree with you on that one. If no countries checked transiting passengers, all it takes is one weak link in the security in some third world country to mess up the security of the entire system. There's no way each and every country can check and vouch for the security of all other countries. The only way they can be confident of the security is if they do it themselves.

Say a terrorist has a connection at some airport in country A that will let him bypass security and board a plane to another country B with a bomb in his bag. He then has another terrorist friend who will fly from country B to country C, and the two meet at the airport in country B and the bag is transferred to the second terrorist. Bomb goes off during the flight from country B to C, and investigators may never even have a clue where it originated, being the terrorist on that flight didn't originate in country A. So the weak security link is never even found.

If there were no security checks at each and every transit point (at least with respect to international flights), the safety of the skies would be severely compromised.