Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
I don't know if it is gross authoritarian control. The over arching point is to check whether people report themselves as being on vacation when they are. Your employer would also object if you forget to tell that you are on vacation rather than working If they found 21 people in one day of checking, there might be a point to carrying out these checks.
The reason for selecting non schengen (and most likely non EU) flights is that people could have been seeking employment within the EU,and that would be a perfectly good reason for being out of the country, free movement and all that. So being checked on a UK arrival is not likely.
Huge numbers of people living in the EU seek employment opportunities outside of the EU too. And we both ought to know that merely being a resident of Denmark doesn’t necessarily make the person able to legally work in another EU country beside where they have residency. Lots of residents of one EU country can’t just legally start work in every other EU country beside that which granted them residency without jumping through some hoops (if even able or allowed to jump through the hoops to do so in the here and now).
I am very curious to know the targeting approach being used by the Danish authorities in these checks. My bet is that most flight passenger traffic in the current quarter from CPH to warm weather EU islands have not been going on such flights and back seeking work at the warm-weather EU island destination.
Are they targeting charter package tourist flights from warm and hot weather places to CPH? Those flights may be the richest targets, whether from Spanish islands or non-EU Thailand or other warm places.