A fraudulent practice is taking place in some European airports, and they have Spain as an indirect protagonist. As reported from the Zurich airport, in recent months several people who sneak into the planes have been detected without having a ticket.
The tactic they use is to hide behind those who do have a ticket and the current check-in Code. Many point to a major problem, which occurs because many people arrive in the flight area after passing the boarding control of the airport without having a ticket, as reported Swissinfo.ch.
These practices have been extended not in a alarming way but considerable this year, since while in 2023 only one case was counted in Zurich, in 2024 that figure amounted to four, according to SRF, SRF reported, the same figure as this year until May.
One of the cases that occurred last year had as the protagonist a woman who managed to pass “quickly in front of the counter when the airport employee looked away from the boarding card”, so that he managed to avoid the security control and set up on the plane in the direction of Amsterdam.
Although it is a flagrant fault, due to the consequences that this type of acts can entail, the woman was sanctioned with only 500 francs (just under 500 euros) by the Federal Civil Aviation Office (Foca) for incurring an “unauthorized entry in the security zone”.
Luckily for the company, “in this plane, people were counted when embarked, and if the count does not match the documentation, a check is made to determine if there are too many passengers on board. This was the case,” said Bettina Kunz, press spokesman for Zurich airport to the middle Hotnews.
But not happy with this, after two weeks, he tried to sneak on another flight in Barcelona without having a ticket, and managed to sneak behind a passenger that crossed the security control. But it is not an isolated case, since they remember that another man, under the influence of alcohol he tried to do the same, although he claimed that it was “an experiment to check if it was as easy” how to do it on the train.
However, from the airport they emphasize that thanks to cameras and sensors, these types of situations are much more detectable than years ago, although there are still certain errors or reliability failures in this regard.
In any case, they ensure that all procedures are improving to be as safe and reliable as possible, and claim that they have no relevance for airport safety.
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