Re:British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
by isostatic on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:13AM
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I was talking about BA flights. BA check passports at the gate to all destinations aside from domestic UK ones (and maybe London-Dublin -- I haven't done that flight)
I don't believe they run any inter-schengen or other "domestic" flights, and the 5th freedom flights they do run are like Singapore to Sydney so attract passport viewing.
Security is irelevent to BA's problems.
Re:British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:07AM
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They only have to check at entry to Schengen zone, which the UK and Ireland are outside.
Re:British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:23PM
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Some countries have an agreement with each other where the passport check isn’t required. For instance I believe Norway and Sweden have one because they are part of the Nordic Passport Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union
Which countries? I fly a lot NL<>ES, ES<>DE and they don't check my passport usually. I do take it because sometimes they ask for it, but mostly they don't.
The UK obviously being the outlier; very paranoid with extremely old scanners so security takes a long time, especially at Heathrow.