Will my duty free booze get through security check on transfer

[One_And_Only_Wanderers]

I’m in Moscow next week, and plan to take advantage of the duty free at Sheremetyevo by buying a litre of whiskey. However, I am not on a direct flight. I have to transfer at Schiphol. Would my duty free booze get through the security check for my connecting flight to Manchester.

Really don’t want to watse my money by buying the plonk only to have to leave it behind in Amsterdam

[Richard_Pearse]

You could buy the duty free on arrival in Manchester, or is it particularly cheap in Sheremetyevo?

[One_And_Only_Wanderers]

@Richard_Pearse

You could buy the duty free on arrival in Manchester, or is it particularly cheap in Sheremetyevo?

Oh yeah. Outside the euro zone so much much cheaper.

[flodnak]

Usually they can put the duty-free purchases in a sealed bag for you, and that will clear security without problems, at least in Europe. But definitely check that before you spend any money! I have no experience with Sheremetyevo but my gut says a big airport like that, with lots of European travellers looking for cheap booze, probably has a sealer thingie at every cash register in the duty-free.

(I guess they wouldn’t let you shop duty-free at Schipol, even though you’re coming from outside the EU, would they. Pity. That place is a shopping mall with airplanes :p)

[SpaceDog]

I was going to say: “IF it’s sealed in one of those no-tamper bags (and you haven’t tampered with it) you should make it through security at Schiphol.”

However, it appears the answer is ‘No’, from http://www.schiphol.nl/Travellers/AtSchiphol/Luggage/RulesForHandBaggage.htm:

Regulations for non EU countries

Liquid goods purchased tax-free at an airport outside of the European Union will be confiscated at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This also applies if the goods are sealed and applies to any purchases made on board of a non-European airline.

Which seems a little harsh, and the rules for the US, Canada and Australia are different I just didn’t bother quoting them.

Seems it needs to be in your checked-in baggage – can you get to duty free when the plane lands, and then pack it for the return trip?

SD

[One_And_Only_Wanderers]

@SpaceDog

I was going to say: “IF it’s sealed in one of those no-tamper bags (and you haven’t tampered with it) you should make it through security at Schiphol.”

However, it appears the answer is ‘No’, from http://www.schiphol.nl/Travellers/AtSchiphol/Luggage/RulesForHandBaggage.htm:

Which seems a little harsh, and the rules for the US, Canada and Australia are different I just didn’t bother quoting them.

Seems it needs to be in your checked-in baggage – can you get to duty free when the plane lands, and then pack it for the return trip?

SD

That’s what I suspected, but wasn’t able to find that section of text on the Schiphol website. I will now investigate the buying of booze in Moscow and ship it in my checked luggage.

Thanks!

[Khaki_Campbell]

Regulations for non EU countries

Liquid goods purchased tax-free at an airport outside of the European Union will be confiscated at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This also applies if the goods are sealed and applies to any purchases made on board of a non-European airline.

Yeah. You allow pot and scat porn and display prostitutes under shop windows, and you forbid foreign booze ? What a stupid country :rolleyes:

[footballisplayedwithyourfeet]

The sealed-with-receipt-transfer-thing only works when you travel from an EU country (once had to wait 15 minutes till the guy at Paris CDG was trying to figure out whether Slovenia was an EU member or not sigh.

I remember that in India (Chennai) they made a big point of making sure people only bought duty free booze when Paris CDG was their final destiantion…