Originally Posted by
cdn1
Seems more like a UK policy perhaps?
We need more Italian passport holders to give their experiences here
It's more an issue of either airline rep/contractor or airline than anything else.
Real U.K. passports can be fraudulently acquired in Italy, and some of those may be even loaded well enough that they work at the epassport gates at LHR. Make of this what you wish:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-security.html
Real Italian passports too wouldn't surprise me.