Recently flew SJO-PTY-HAV (just last week in fact) and I made a rookie error of putting down the wrong passport expiry date when checking in online (hand luggage only). Went to the check in desk to rectify it and was then asked:

- if I had a tourist card for Cuba
- if I lived in Cuba
- if I had a flight out of Cuba
- something else which I seem to have forgotten

all this was part of "document checks" they need to do...now had I not messed up check in and had only hand luggage, how exactly do they plan on doing such checks before immigration/security? I was frankly surprised about the flight out of Cuba question...

maybe I have missed something here?