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Old Jun 26, 2012, 1:53 pm
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sbm12
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Originally Posted by emma69
I quite like that the airline know who is on board
If the airlines really cared about this they'd have to check IDs at boarding all the time. They gave up on that a long time ago. You might want that to happen, but it doesn't.

Originally Posted by emma69
In terms of visas, I just don't think machines are smart enough - if you are flying from X to Z via Y, what does the machine check, and how can it possible know every eventuality (I don't think the technology is there to link automatically to every country's individual visa in and outs (some, for example you need a visa if you are going there, but if you are transiting for less than 24 hours, you don't - if you have an onward ticket with an unrelated airline, how can that machine do the working out?).
You don't get a BP until a human has verified the documents. They do not necessarily have to be verified again at the time of boarding if they've already been verified previously when the BP is issued.
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