Subject: Re: customs, international flight query

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Subject: Re: customs, international flight query

Posted on: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:06:37 +0000 (UTC)

Binyamin Dissen schrieb:

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:37:55 +1300 "Cedric the sublime" wrote:
>
> :>Why is it that when I fly from Wellington (WLG) to Manchester (UK) via
> :>Auckland (AKL) and Heathrow (LHR) I have to reclaim my baggage at LHR, take
> :>it along with me to the domestic terminal and recheck it in there. MAN is an
> :>international airport; why can't customs examine the baggage there?
> :>Similarly, on return; I have to reclaim my baggage at AKL, and then almost
> :>immediately check it in again for my onward flight to WLG - also an
> :>international airport.
>
> Presumably because there are domestic passengers taking the end flights.
>
> Customs and immigration cannot allow passengers that have not cleared to mix
> with passengers that have cleared.

Customs inside the EC can for trough-checked luggage; this is European law.

Regards, ULF

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