Originally Posted by
flyphilrun
When I used to live in Senegal, Dakar airport introduced "security screening" after baggage collection. Everyone had to put their suitcases and handluggage through a huge scanning machine.
Until few years ago, Serbian customs at BEG used to the exactly the same thing - scanning all [checked and hand] luggage of all incoming passengers - to prevent any smuggling and avoidance of duty. Now they have red and green exits.
Originally Posted by
flyphilrun
Also at about the same time, a number of arrivals at CDG were accompanied by passport spotchecks at the door of the plane on disembarking. Don't know if this is only done on flights originating in Africa, but I certainly have never experienced it off any other flight arriving in CDG. It considerably slows down the disembarking, I can tell you, as they are extremely fastidious in their inspection of every single passport.
My suspicion on this is that the process has more to do with stopping illegal immigration than any security measure, but who knows?
I flew in from CAI today at CDG and there was a passport control in the jetway. But I am not really sure what they were looking for, as I surely didn't have right to enter France [nor was I intending - only transiting to UK]