Will I go through security again when making a stop in same country

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To allow an interchange without re-clearing security a few things must hold.

  1. The airport you are interchanging at must trust the airport you arrived from. Different countries have different policies on this with some being more trusting than others.
  2. The airline and destination airport must trust the "regular" security of the interchange airport. Some destinations and airlines insist on extra security checks in addition to the "normal" airport security.
  3. The passengers must not have access to their hold luggage while in the secure area (as hold luggage can contain items forbidden in the cabin).
  4. The airport must be willing and able to keep the flow of passengers who do not require security checks separate from those who do require security checks. Each segregated passenger flow an airport adds costs money, so the airport has to balance the cost of extra security checks against the cost of segregating passenger flows.

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As you're transferring from an inter-Schengen flight to a flight leaving the Schengen area, you're going to have to go through passport check at the very least.

Customs is USUALLY only applicable to arriving passengers.

Security depends on the airport and even the terminal. Some have it once on entering the airport, others have it on entering the terminal, others still at every gate, and I've been to airports that had all three systems in place, where you went through security screening at least 3 times before boarding your flight.

I'm not familiar with the situation at Madrid Barajas, but I'd be surprised if you can travel from one terminal to another without some form of security check.

So you're likely going to have to go through security, especially if your departing flight is from a different terminal from the arriving one.

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