Originally Posted by
FenLandK
IAlso, they have recently installed some glass walls down in the non-Schengen area for some reason, which makes it seem so much more claustrophobic too. I've yet to work out what that is all about
I believe those are there to enable them to use several of those gates as "mixed" Schengen and non-Schengen gates. When they need more Schengen gates they close the sliding glass doors and open a corridor from the Schengen area.
I know this particularly because I was once accidentally shut in during this conversion process while waiting for a non-Schengen flight at a different gate. Had to go out through the corridor and back in through passport control.