How do I prevent an airline from finding out that I am a multinational?
Normally, when flying on a return ticket, I would present the airline with the passport that lets me into the destination country during check-in. This will sometimes result in showing two different passports (depending on whetever I am returning) with the same return ticket. However, quite obviously, this theoretically allows the airline to deduce that I am a multinational, and which two countries exactly am I citizen of.
Let's assume I didn't want the airline to know. What would be my course of action? Should I just avoid booking return tickets? Do you know any other tricks?
Edit: for the purposes of this question, let's assume I don't care if governments know or find out that I am a multinational. Just the airline.
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In general you can't. The airlines are responsible to check that you have proper entry documentation for your destination and will often be heavily fined if they screw up. Hence they do keep records so they can show What they did in case a dispute arises. These records are associated with the ticket number and quite often with you as a person.
Whether they every look at these records, compare docs, or care at all, is a different question, but you can't be sure.
To really achieve your goal, you would have to buy one way tickets with different airlines and use these airlines consistently for each direction.
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What would be my course of action?
There's a few options:
- Book the return flight with a different company
- In case one of your passports allows for visa-free entry to the other, show that passport at all times. If not, apply for a visa to the other country through the second country (but don't use it at immigration).
- Fly to an airport in a neighboring country that is visa-free to both passports and then get a separate return ticket to that airport.
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