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Old Jun 11, 2022, 5:15 am
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Xandrios
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It's an odd thing. Must say that out of hundreds of ATH departures I have never seen something like this happen. I've seen single people being questioned for their paperwork, but like this - never. These people, having no financial means, would have purchased a flight just to 'try' getting through the checks by use of pure luck? That sounds like not a great investment.

Also, they would require 'double' luck because more often than not there is an ID check upon arrival at AMS. And this is one of those checks were racial profiling is heavily used - looking Dutch, being one of the first off the aircraft (ie flying business) they always just wave me through without even looking at my passport. Others obviously not looking western European (or typically Greek I guess), not so much.
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