Transit visa

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Why do some countries in Europe want you to get a transit visa even if you are not entering the country? This seems excessive fir someone just connecting to a non-schengen country. Isn’t the airport terminal considered international area as one hasn’t gone through passport control?

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The problem arises if you…say…miss your connection. Or if your flight gets rerouted to another airport because of weather or something like that.

Because then you sit in the international terminal and is not allowed to transfer by bus to another flight from the other airport so that you can get out of there.

EDIT: actually. what I just said appears to be wrong. You need a full visa to be allowed to transfer by bus between airports.

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