Originally Posted by
flytalkflyer
What is interesting is how it works on SQ377. I saw a Youtube video of someone who got caught in a mess with EU immigration after passport control at BCN stamped him out of the Schengen region even though he was only flying BCN-MXP. Would be interesting to hear how it works on that leg. How does passport control at BCN work?
it is an interesting flight, on inbound to BCN, the few passengers who are destined to BCN stayed onboard during the stopover at MXP while the new intra-Schengen passengers came on board. Arriving at BCN, everyone just showed their boarding passes with those showing SIN origin being directed to passport control. On outbound, exit passport control are done at BCN, and again SIN bound passengers are required to stay onboard at MXP. So despite being a fifth freedom flight, the MXP stop felt more like a fuel stop.
Quite different from that funny Covid era SIN-CPH-FCO flight (also with a intra Schengen leg) back in 2022, everyone have to deplane and go through passport control at CPH and then go to Schengen terminal to reboard the flight to get to FCO.