Security/Customs/Immigration when Transiting Schengen Countries
#16
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Most airlines use baggage stickers using a single stock. If the airline operates flights only to/from (but not within) the EU customs union, it will use either a white or a green stock. If it operates flights within the customs union, it will use green stock.
#17
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It depends on the airline.
Most airlines use baggage stickers using a single stock. If the airline operates flights only to/from (but not within) the EU customs union, it will use either a white or a green stock. If it operates flights within the customs union, it will use green stock.
Most airlines use baggage stickers using a single stock. If the airline operates flights only to/from (but not within) the EU customs union, it will use either a white or a green stock. If it operates flights within the customs union, it will use green stock.
#18
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Just take a closer look the next time, it's hard to miss when you don't look for it as it just the edges of the sticker and it's a very light green.
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#23
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Sorry to dig up such an old thread, but was reviewing this for some useful info and found this post hilarious. Why would you white out or manipulate the tag in such a way? LAD is Luanda, Angola and is obviously altered. Your flight number BA 1435 is a domestic flight (currently from EDI, but could have been different back then). Then amount of editing in that pic is silly considering the flight was taken and limited info is in those codes. A tag originating in Luanda, transiting LHR, IAD (BA 217, easily guessed from remaining non-altered tag), and ending ??? (in USA presumably) certainly would not have the green stripe and look quite different from this. This is just silliness.
Last edited by dvs7310; Apr 18, 2020 at 11:31 am
#24
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Not my sticker (I never flew from EDI to IAD), I picked this picture on the internet, with the only purpose to show what was meant by "green stripes". I never bothered to edit the picture, which had, obviously, been edited previously. I have no idea who was the original poster, and why (s)he changed LAX (probably) to LAD. I agree it may have been silly, but we don't really know what the purpose of the "perpetrator" was. I also don't know what the purpose of your post was, but I do understand that 1) people have lots of time to kill at the times of the current pandemic, and 2) you'll have to learn how to read the stickers: LAD (or LAX) would be the final destination, the origin of the flight is never shown on the sticker (the flight is).
#25
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LAD should be LHR. Here's the original stock image:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-...-81146306.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-...-81146306.html