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Jan 13, 2015, 2:26 pm

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Originally Posted by stifle

There was a terminal dump yesterday at Stansted Airport after passengers arriving from LIS on Ryanair (believe it was FR1887) were routed through the wrong door and into the departures hall instead of arrivals. The UK being the only EU country which does not trust other EU countries' screening standards, it was determined that all passengers in the terminal had now had the opportunity to interact with "non-sterile" passengers and would need to be rescreened, causing delays of up to 2 hours.

An investigation is in progress as to who was responsible for the wrong door being opened.

Isn't the issue here that passengers have access to checked bags, since the UK doesn't participate in Schengen?

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