1:25 hours connection in Bangkok (BKK). Is it enough?
Jan 9, 2017, 2:59 am
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the minimum connection time between two Thai Airways flights is only 55 min because you will get your onward boarding pass for BKK-Perth already in Milano.
Jan 9, 2017, 4:40 am
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they were screened at the departure Airport...
screening all transiting passengers seems to be an Asian Thing
In Europe and USA, they do not screen passengers in transit when they came from another European or US Airport.
Happened also once to me in Narita when I was flying with UA from BKK and transit to ORD, escort direct to outgoing plane without security check due to delay
Jan 14, 2017, 7:51 am
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if they go from gate down the stairs directly into a van and then to the other gate, they will not pass security
they were screened at the departure Airport...
screening all transiting passengers seems to be an Asian Thing
In Europe and USA, they do not screen passengers in transit when they came from another European or US Airport.
Happened also once to me in Narita when I was flying with UA from BKK and transit to ORD, escort direct to outgoing plane without security check due to delay
they were screened at the departure Airport...
screening all transiting passengers seems to be an Asian Thing
In Europe and USA, they do not screen passengers in transit when they came from another European or US Airport.
Happened also once to me in Narita when I was flying with UA from BKK and transit to ORD, escort direct to outgoing plane without security check due to delay
Jan 14, 2017, 6:12 pm
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FRA, VIE, ZRH are other examples I have own recent experience. When you come from a Schengen flight and have a connecting flight, you do not need to go through security; the other way round you need
Jan 15, 2017, 12:52 am
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Your anecdotal evidence doesn't stand. There are cases in FRA where you do Schengen to Schengen and you still have to re-clear the security. Same applies to ZRH. I have came from Schengen flight going to USA and had to clear security and "extra security" for USA flights too... Another case would be flights to Israel...
Jan 15, 2017, 3:28 am
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Your anecdotal evidence doesn't stand. There are cases in FRA where you do Schengen to Schengen and you still have to re-clear the security. Same applies to ZRH. I have came from Schengen flight going to USA and had to clear security and "extra security" for USA flights too... Another case would be flights to Israel...
in FRA of course it depends where you walk your way through the Labyrinth. If you arrive for example in Terminal A (Schengen), you can take the tunnel to Terminal B (most intercontinental flights) and avoid security or leave Terminal A the normal way and then enter Terminal B through security
Similar in ZRH up the escalator at the end of the Terminal from the Arrival Level to Departure without security
Those examples just supported the claim, that there is no 100% screening of transiting passengers in European or US Airports as well
Jan 16, 2017, 1:08 am
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ROFL 
So, here you make categorical claim, and then
here you soften it... Makes me really wonder...
in FRA of course it depends where you walk your way through the Labyrinth. If you arrive for example in Terminal A (Schengen), you can take the tunnel to Terminal B (most intercontinental flights) and avoid security or leave Terminal A the normal way and then enter Terminal B through security
Similar in ZRH up the escalator at the end of the Terminal from the Arrival Level to Departure without security
Those examples just supported the claim, that there is no 100% screening of transiting passengers in European or US Airports as well
Similar in ZRH up the escalator at the end of the Terminal from the Arrival Level to Departure without security
Those examples just supported the claim, that there is no 100% screening of transiting passengers in European or US Airports as well
Jan 16, 2017, 1:14 am
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you are of course right that I forgot to write in the first Quote "the majority"
there are always cases where you have to change terminal and then of course pass security again or passengers do not know the direct route without security screening or (what happened to me last year in VIE) were directed the wrong way from arrival
Jan 31, 2017, 6:58 am
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