Think I know the answer to this but thought i'd blow off steam anyway.........
Did a flight today, UK-Italy-Switzerland-UK.
Plan is:- empty first leg, full load 2nd leg, drop half the pax in Swissland on quick turn and rest on to UK.
All goes well till we try and depart Switzerland where all pax are hauled off aircraft to go and have full immigration checks which then means full security checks even though they have all been through this leaving Italy. Co-Captain even got a dressing down from head borderman honcho when we tried to raise objections to the pointlessness of it all as we were not entering country. Hindsight says we were probably lucky not to have all the bags pulled off too and our lives made a real misery.....
The reason..........in a word Schengen
Apart from the obvious point that UK is not a Schengen country, anyone got any other examples or constructive comments?????