Timeline for Why did Turkish Airlines demand my resident permit for UAE during a transfer?
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| 21 hours ago | comment | added | jcaron | @phoog Many do, and probably more and more do given the financial risk, and with the help of bi-directional APIs, ESTA/ETA/etc, but I think it's still quite far from being the case for all airlines/flights/situations at this time. Agents will usually err on the side of caution, but people actually making it through to their destination without the appropriate paperwork still exist, I believe we've seen a few other the years. And then they complain that the airline let them board and that they lost time and money and that it's the airline's fault. | |
| 21 hours ago | comment | added | phoog | "But they usually don't check those databases for each and every passenger, only those which are outside of the standard cases they know by heart": I believe most airlines use automated systems to do these checks for all passengers without relying on (fallible) human memory. | |
| 21 hours ago | comment | added | phoog | "they will usually have to transport the passenger back at their own expense": the contract of carriage generally provides that they can recover this from the passenger, but that of course can be a headache in itself. Also they typically have to take the passenger back if the passenger is denied entry for any reason, even with the proper documents. Verifying the documents only protects them against the (fairly significant) fine. | |
| 21 hours ago | history | answered | jcaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |