EXEMPTIONS: Any non revenue passenger that is airline employees who are crew, escorts of a
passenger, engineering or security staff or employees involved in the hygienic
preparation, handling of food or drink. Duties must be carried out within 72 hours of the
flight landing. This exemption also includes those staff who commence their return journey
within 72 hours of completing their task, providing they are returning to their home base.
An example of this exemption in use are crew members who operate into the U.K. and
depart as passengers within 72 hours of arrival enroute to their home base i.e. Sydney or
Melbourne.
Departures from the Channel Islands (ACI/GCI/JER)
Infants not reaching 2 years of age, and not occupying a seat.
Transit passengers transferring to an international flight within 24 hours.
Transit passengers transferring between flights when the connecting time to a UK
domestic flight does not exceed 6 hours or when a flight arrives at or after 1700 one
day and a connecting UK domestic flight departs by 1000 the following morning.
Transit passengers who do not deplane.
Visiting Forces Military Personnel and NATO Military Headquarters and Agencies Staff
travelling for official purposes.
Passengers travelling on pleasure flights that leave from and return to the same airport,
do not put down anywhere else and do not exceed one hour.