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LHR charges for the cost of this screening to the passengers. For example, if you transited LHR on a round-trip in economy class from the US, you paid GBP 54.39 (USD 83.10) for this (on the ticket under tax/fee "UB").

EU Regulations state that "transfer passengers and their cabin baggage may be exempted from screening, if: (a) they arrive from a Member State [...] or (b) they arrive from a third country where the security standards applied are recognised as equivalent to the common basic standards [...] [E.g. the USA]"


SECURITY CONTROL both ways:

• LHR

NO SECURITY CONTROL either way (Schengen to USA or v.v.):

• FRA (A/Z-gates only) [Lufthansa hub]
• MUC [Lufthansa hub]
• AMS (from mid 2015 when reconstruction works finish) [KLM hub]
• HEL
• ZRH [SWISS hub]
• CPH

NO SECURITY CONTROL from Schengen to USA (control on the way back from USA to Schengen):

• VIE
• WAW
• ARN
• OSL