Originally Posted by
jsloan
I'm not sure how that would have worked; I don't know that the departures area is physically connected to the arrivals area. Regardless, it's not necessary, as OP already discovered.
To anyone in a similar situation in the future, the baggage service people have a procedure for this: they call a security agent over with a wand, to check for weapons, and then they'll have one of their people escort you through into the baggage area.
There is a way out of the airside departures area to get to the OSL baggage hall. They are physically connected, and it’s how passengers go to collect their bags when being offloaded/no-showing at the gate and needing to claim the offloaded bags at OSL after missing the flight for which bags were checked in but ultimately offloaded because of the rule restricting unaccompanied checked luggage on flights from the airport.
OSL and other SAS hub airports don’t call security agents to wand passengers to get escorted into the baggage area if needing to be taken into the baggage hall to get their bags, as there really is no point in that since attempts to backtrack from the baggage hall back into the airside departures area would set off all sorts of alarms and is physically restricted.