Originally Posted by
OGG flyer
lack of reciprocity annoys me, EU travelers can breeze through automated gates at LHR, whereas us Brits have to typically use manual desks. Heathrow should disable automated gates for EU passports until reciprocity is established. I don't have skin in the game , as I also have EU citizenship though need to renew my second passport and am EU born, so can criticise from certain degree of objectivity here
Sorry Honey - I have certainly seen gates for Uk passport holders at Alicante when arriving BA, and certainly at Roissy (CDG). I confess myself amazed at what happened to him. However, I always enter Europe (Schengen on my French passport and Him Indoors on his Irish passports. Maybe it is to do with EU entry post Brexit. I now use my French passport to give to the French or wherever police when leaving Schengen and my UK passport when I arrive in the UK.
If I missed thei BAfan Love - did they offer him any explanation for this extraordinary behaviour? I have known the Swedish police waiting on the jetway when we flew in from Madrid. As this has happened to
corporate-wage-slave who was coming from the same location. Maybe Spanish arrivals have their antennae twitching.?