Originally Posted by orbitmic

And there should be no place which handle an Aussie passport automatically but a uk one manually so I’m puzzled by that one. Really everywhere in Schengen where you can enter at a gate with an Australian passport you would be able to do the exact same with a Uk one as is the case at most airports I use which have a set of machines for eligible foreign passports (note that in Schengen separate machines are used for eu and eligible foreign passports). I’ll try to take a photo when I’m next going through one if I remember.