UK Electronic Travel Authority
Mar 5, 2024, 5:44 pm
#16
Join Date: May 2018
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There’s a chance that during parts of my travel I might need to use my Saudi passport to enter the UK especially if I fly there from the GCC to minimize my chances of being outed as a naturalized U.S. citizen/passport holder, especially if I’m flying between the GCC and the UK and back. Plus now when I travel from the U.S. to the GCC via LHR there’s a chance the airlines might not let me board unless I have proof of an ETA depending on who I’m dealing with since I’ll be using my Saudi passport to travel. I wanted my bases covered on all those fronts.
And I wanted to see how the application process is since eventually it’ll apply to my U.S. passport as well.
And I wanted to see how the application process is since eventually it’ll apply to my U.S. passport as well.
Apr 16, 2024, 12:24 am
#18
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Heathrow Calls For Exempting Transit Passengers From UK’s New £10 Entry Fee
https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...ps10-entry-fee
The CEO made a stink about it for the first time a couple of months ago too:https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-b2499992.html
It funny they’re taking issue with this even though all the ETAs in Canada, the U.S., NZ and Australia are required for transiting passengers as well.
Apr 16, 2024, 9:16 am
#19
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Heathrow Calls For Exempting Transit Passengers From UK’s New £10 Entry Fee
https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...ps10-entry-fee
The CEO made a stink about it for the first time a couple of months ago too:https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-b2499992.html
It funny they’re taking issue with this even though all the ETAs in Canada, the U.S., NZ and Australia are required for transiting passengers as well.
Apr 16, 2024, 10:14 am
#20
Join Date: May 2018
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The reason that Heathrow management is so concerned about this requirement is that the airport has a huge transit business and there are plenty of alternatives--for example, for passengers traveling between North America and the Indian Subcontinent, there are lots of other options beside LHR (not to mention many direct flights), including DXB. By contrast geography means that there are far fewer alternatives to transit via the U.S. or Canada for certain itineraries, such as between the Far East and Latin America, or between certain parts of Europe and Latin America. So the disincentive factor of an ETA for transiting the U.S. or Canada is less of an issue than it would be for transiting the UK.
One if the stats the CEO posted about was that there were 19,000 fewer passengers from Doha but he didn’t say whether those are Qatari nationals or not and the vast majority of traffic from DOH flights are likely not Qatari nationals. So that stat feels like it’s missing something.