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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
Far from the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as is clear when trying to answer the following: what rule is simultaneously a US rule and an Israeli rule and a UK rule (but applying to UK flights operated by BA but not by AZ), where those 3 foreign governments have jurisdictional superior to Italian government rules at MXP?


I did not speak for the UK nor Israel, but the US government asked Italy to provide seperate security/check-in procedures, under certain circumstances (including average pax numbers, cargo volume and a few other metrics), for US flagged jets and passengers. It has asked this of several other countries as well (some have said yes, some no). The fact El Al jumped on the bandwagon at T5 is not shocking though.

Even at VCE and other airports that get smaller numbers of US bound pax, there are different procedures in place for US flag carriers. Some visable, some not visable. This is a fact. Whether you deem it so, matters not to me.

As for special UK rules, I have never seen it, and I fly CTA to LGW at least twice a month, but I would love to hear what they are. Is it like the US and only at high volume airports in Italia?

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