Please could anyone explain the concern about keeping arriving and departing passengers separated?
I understood it to prevent someone getting off one flight, and hopping onto another.
But.....I was in AMS last Thursday, and to me the whole place seemed to be one area of arriving and departing pax.
I flew in with SAS from OSL, walked straight into the lounge area "D" and walked (AMS is HUGE isn't it!) through to Lounge area "B" and shopped along the way - at no point could I descern any distinction between me 'arriving' and 'departing'.
So why do other airports go to such lengths to keep the 2 separate?
ANOTHER thing........
OSLO Gardemoen must be one of the best airports I have ever travelled through, all wooden floors and glass walls. Even the airbridges had glass walls.
I noticed that the security and x-ray area, after check-in was so open plan. At UK airports you are made to feel like you are entering some hermetically sealed decompression chamber, all behind screens, strictly no photography etc etc.
At OSL you can stand in the check-in area, watch people walk through security, and see them til they disappear into the duty free shopping area.
Again - why the difference at UK airports?
I understand totally about terrorism risks and the like - but where is the risk in the OSL style, and the protection in the LHR style.