Bizarre and painful new passport restrictions in T5 for hand-baggage travellers
Sep 11, 2013, 6:03 pm
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What will happen when Mr DYKWIA, unaware of the changes, rocks up to security at T-40 with his shiny mobile boarding pass as advertised, complete with full and accurate APIS details enetered online, only to get a red beep and told to schlep off for a pointless and unnecessary visa check, and susbsequently misses conformance?
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Sep 11, 2013, 6:19 pm
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Sometimes you have the best seat that you're happy with e.g. for short haul an exit seat in economy or (for me) an aisle seat in club europe. Not everyone checks the seat map for better options after checking in (although I do on domestics, just before going through security I see if I still have my middle seat empty, if I don't I'll move back to an empty row if the flight is looking like it won't be full and I don't need to be off first).
Sep 11, 2013, 7:14 pm
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Pax uses check in machine (thus an audit trail of the time exists), is referred to visa check and has to queue, misses 35 mins conformance.
However regulation says that if pax presents themselves at check in, with a valid ticket, by the time stated by the airline, then compo due. This is no second time gate in the regulation, once you can prove you are checked in before or at the time stated by the airline, they're on the hook.
If this is meant to be a cost saving exercise, it might suffer from the law of unintended consequences.
Or am I missing something?
Sep 11, 2013, 10:05 pm
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Sep 11, 2013, 11:24 pm
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There was this identity swap 2 years ago: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...g-arrests.html
Sep 11, 2013, 11:37 pm
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Sep 12, 2013, 12:15 am
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Bizarre and painful new passport restrictions in T5 for hand-baggage travellers
So is it clear what you do if connecting? I'm flying LBA-LHR-SFO soon with hand baggage only, and was planning to use mobile bps, but will I now fall foul of this arrangement?
Sep 12, 2013, 12:19 am
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I've had mrs shorthauldad's passport and BP in "my" carry on while passing through security at least a dozen times.
Sep 12, 2013, 1:35 am
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No. You will have your passport checked at the gate at Leeds Bradford, as has always been the case at domestic outstations prior to boarding a flight which is linked to an international sector.
Sep 12, 2013, 2:29 am
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So if you are just flying domestically you don't have to show a passport but they check at the gate if you are connecting? How do they know if you just show the first BP?
Sep 12, 2013, 2:30 am
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But isn't that the bizarre situation - why does a gate check suffice for domestic connection but not at T5?
Sep 12, 2013, 2:50 am
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e.g. LBA-LHR (booking #1)
then LHR-JFK (booking #2)
the "passport check" at the LBA gate isn't going to apply to the LHR-JFK booking. You arrive at T5 as domestic arrival and pass through conformance and go airside... or do you get pulled aside for an extra passport check at that conformance point?
...or do you get as far as the gate for the JFK flight before "the system" spots something is wrong?
"Can of worms" doesn't even begin to describe what's going on here...
Sep 12, 2013, 3:00 am
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What happens if you transit through LHR on two separate tickets? I've done this several times.
e.g. LBA-LHR (booking #1)
then LHR-JFK (booking #2)
the "passport check" at the LBA gate isn't going to apply to the LHR-JFK booking. You arrive at T5 as domestic arrival and pass through conformance and go airside... or do you get pulled aside for an extra passport check at that conformance point?
...or do you get as far as the gate for the JFK flight before "the system" spots something is wrong?
"Can of worms" doesn't even begin to describe what's going on here...
e.g. LBA-LHR (booking #1)
then LHR-JFK (booking #2)
the "passport check" at the LBA gate isn't going to apply to the LHR-JFK booking. You arrive at T5 as domestic arrival and pass through conformance and go airside... or do you get pulled aside for an extra passport check at that conformance point?
...or do you get as far as the gate for the JFK flight before "the system" spots something is wrong?
"Can of worms" doesn't even begin to describe what's going on here...