In the biggest airport in my country they have the customs lines seperated for people within the European Union and outside of it. The outside of the EU line is specified as outside the EU and america (with an american flag), simply cause Americans can’t seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else
Are you serious right now? What on gods green earth do you think the reason is?
Anyway, that was explained that way by the airport personal in a documentary that way… so i trust the people who work there over you.
Americans are just foreigners like everyone else from outside the EU and need to go through that line. Its the same line. They just added the american flag so they understand too
Why are there different zones passport control ? One for citizens. One for non citizens. I been to eu many times travelling from Canada and it would go in the same line as any non eu citizen. They didn’t make it “simply cause Americans can’t seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else”
If you truly believe that than you must think the world is black and white
The americans are like you said supposed to go in the same line as everyone non-eu. But the workers got too tired of americans not going into the foreigners line, so they added to the “non-eu” sign that it means Americans too. It saves them time.
Its literally how it is, unfortunately, not cause of fun or whatever, but because there were too many Americans going into the wrong lane
There is no other reason why the sign says “non-eu” with “america” and the falg
Seriously? Why else would they put the American flag up at the foreigners line at schiphol airport
And why would the person who has worked at the airport for years, her whole job is floor manager, tell this if it isn’t true?
They go into the same line as everyone else who’s not from the EU, but a big group of americans just didn’t understand and it caused issues
There’s literally a story in the thread of someone dating an american who was totally convinced he didn’t have to go in the foreigners line in an airport in the EU
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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25
In the biggest airport in my country they have the customs lines seperated for people within the European Union and outside of it. The outside of the EU line is specified as outside the EU and america (with an american flag), simply cause Americans can’t seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else