On domestic flights and flights within the Schengen zone, until now there was no document control, if you do not count the control of personal documents that companies control when entering the plane. But soon these controls should become more serious. As the weekly Der Spiegel reports, in the future airlines should collect so-called API data, that is, information about the passenger’s identity and send it to the authorities, writes Deutsche Welle.
Although, according to the draft law prepared by the European Commission, it is not a question of classic checks carried out by the border police, but by airline staff, it is still feared that in the end everything will come down to a classic “pre-Schengen” check with queues and wasting time .
