Originally Posted by
californiadreamin'
What if you surreptitiously don't fly out? Oe, what if all passengers, with whom you are co-mingling, have to leave the gate area due to IROPs?
A normal international transit area doesn't allow you to leave the gate area without going through customs/immigration. (I believe this is the case in YYZ T1, though I've never gone through it.) And because of this, most airports that I have used that have this (*outside* of North America!) don't bother processing you when you are in transit.