When they fly from one foreign destination to another. How is this done?
How about when they move around as passengers, not pilots? I suppose they’re like everyone else who follow visa requirements.
says Aircrew need a circulation - one yea - visa.
Other countries make their own rules, it does seem redundant, but I suppose immigration staff wouldn’t know for sure they were aircrew otherwise.
The US issues a special type of visa (labelled “D”) to air crew members:
I can’t tell from the info in the links but my take on this is that they don’t need a visa if they just turn the plane around and fly back. Maybe they wouldn’t even need a passport. They would never have to pass through passport control. However, on trans-Atlantic flights they probably can’t do that due to rest requirements.
I’m not an airline guy, but for private aviation it depends on your country of arrival and your nationality. Some places require a regular visa, some places issue crew visas, some don’t require a visa for crew if they are in uniform and have a crew ID, and some places don’t require visas at all.
We always need a passport, as customs officials typically come aboard our airplane when we land to check our documents. Not sure how this works in the airline world.
When I was shipping I had a “Z” card. When in a country other than the US that card acted as my passport and Visa. But was only good as such if I was on a ship when it came into port and as long as that ship was in port. I could go to an airport and fly back to the US using that card. So I would think that the Pilots have some card like that.
Aren’t airport and shipping ports considered international territory for certain purposes (mostly related to customs and immigration)?