Originally Posted by
Midships
In fairness, that's not an LHR thing.
If you land into a Schengen airport, once you've entered inwards though immigration, you get security free travel to other airports in the Schengen area. I cannot think of an airport outside of the Schengen area where you can land and then transit to a Schengen airport without baggage screening.
I've got one for you: DUB. You can fly from (for example) PHL-DUB-NCE without having a rescreening.
I use AMS a lot as my daughter lives there. Am trying to envisage how this actually works with their system of not segregating inbound and outbound pax? If some arriving pax need extra security checks to transfer to another flight, how this actually achieved in practice, ie do some gates have local scanners to re-clear some pax?
Pax arriving at AMS from a non-trusted origin are sent down a different arrivals flow and those connecting will have to be rescreened before entering the mixed departure area.
Originally Posted by
Midships
I've not flown into Schengen airports recently other than Helsinki, but for that to work there would need to be a complete separation of transiting UK and USA origin passengers from all other international arrivals, (so the US / USA passengers are in the sterile channel from the point of disembarkation) from the disembarking gate to the post security checkpoint where the UK and USA origin passengers would presumably be invited to ignore security before entering a common sterile departure area.
It depends on the airport layout but many achieve it by simply mixing departing and (trusted) arriving passengers in the common sterile area. EDI does so.