Originally Posted by
Raffles
Adding APD would solve all these problems as LHR transfers would be prohibitively more expensive than transfers via AMS etc.
Not too sure about "prohibitively", BA will have to suck up some of the cost, otherwise our so-called ex-EU tickets would already be more expensive.
Originally Posted by
Silver Fox
Why should they and what is so special about the US/Canadian screening? All I see is complaints about how rubbish they are.
This:
Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
The EU has common airport security standards, and normally anybody who has cleared security in either the combined EU/Schengen area, or in the USA (which has signed up to the EU standards), does not have to re-clear security when in transit
although I was under the impression that it is the EU that has signed up to the US standards (by default)