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Prague's Ruzyně Airport in security scramble

Thu, Jan 14 2010 12:48 CET

byBenjamin Cunningham - The Prague Post

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Prague's Ruzyně Airport in security scramble

As the foreign affairs ministry closed its visa and consular section at the embassy in Yemen on January 5, and France, Germany, Japan and the United States have closed their embassies entirely, the Western world is awash with security fears in the wake of the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight.   

Security is tightened, say officials from any number of bureaucracies overseeing flights to and from the United States.

What tightened actually means, and what steps Prague's Ruzyně Airport has decided to take, is decidedly less clear. And any travellers with questions about how to best adhere to increased security precautions may be well advised to just take their best guess, with officials from the airport, airlines and the US embassy in Prague offering guidance ranging from none at all to convoluted.

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