Originally Posted by
pacer142
That said, UK airports would require a lot more staff to do gate security than others, as there isn't an outbound passport check. That being the case, you'd need an airside/landside delimiter which would probably have to take the form of manned barriers checking boarding cards. The Netherlands does check people out, so the passport control forms a natural barrier.
If the security is at the gate and there's no outbound passport control then why have restrictions as to who can enter this area? Because of the mix of EU/non-EU pax they have to check your boarding pass if you're buying duty free anyway, so people couldn't just wander into the shops and buy cheap cigarettes and booze.
Schiphol would also have problems going the other way (except in the domestic terminal) and introducing entrance-only security, because arriving and departing passengers aren't separated, and it'd be a lot of work to introduce separation. Not that I want them to - it's one of my favourite airports because (transfer luggage losses aside) it just *works*.
Security at the gate at schiphol was only introduced a few years ago, prior to that arriving pax were not rescreened. But these days I think EU airports have to have either segregated arrivals/departures sections or gate security. Given the choice I'd go for the gate security. It'd be annoying to arrive at D20, find out your connection is in D18 but then have to walk all the way out of arrivals into a transfer point where you rescreen.