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Hwoever every 4-6 passengers they deny boarding is a €2000 fine. For EU flights especially you still check passports at the gate - indeed it's the only place t
by isostatic 7y ago
Hwoever every 4-6 passengers they deny boarding is a €2000 fine.
For EU flights especially you still check passports at the gate - indeed it's the only place they are checked.
For other flights they normally check visas at the checkin desk, but if you're transferring you usually get visa checked at the gate. Most people have nice simple visas that pretty much anyone can check, a few troublemakers like me rely on more complex timatic rules (say TWOV in Beijing on multiple tickets), but no reason that can't be checked at gate either.
- mugsie 7y agoI believe they still check IDs at the gate, even for internal flights. (I am pretty sure they checked my ID the last time I did one) - It is not an passport check, just an ID check at the gate to match person to ticket (as the security in UK airport just check boarding passes, not IDs)
- isostatic 7y agoNot BA, although I haven't flown domestic for a few months. Airlines like Ryanair do check photo ID on domestic, but that's for revenue purposes (to stop people selling tickets on the black market)
- mugsie 7y agoAh, it is just Common Travel Area that needs ID, but not passport.
- isostatic 7y agoNope, you need a boarding card and that's it The Police do have far-reaching powers under the fascist "Schedule 7" of the terrorism act 2000 to demand ID of some sort in certain circumstances, but that's not unique to flying.
- tluyben2 7y ago> For EU flights especially you still check passports at the gate - indeed it's the only place they are checked. Which countries? I fly a lot NL<>ES, ES<>DE and they don't check my passport usually. I do take it because sometimes they ask for it, but mostly they don't. The UK obviously being the outlier; very paranoid with extremely old scanners so security takes a long time, especially at Heathrow.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoThey only have to check at entry to Schengen zone, which the UK and Ireland are outside.
- isostatic 7y agoI was talking about BA flights. BA check passports at the gate to all destinations aside from domestic UK ones (and maybe London-Dublin -- I haven't done that flight) I don't believe they run any inter-schengen or other "domestic" flights, and the 5th freedom flights they do run are like Singapore to Sydney so attract passport viewing. Security is irelevent to BA's problems.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoSome countries have an agreement with each other where the passport check isn’t required. For instance I believe Norway and Sweden have one because they are part of the Nordic Passport Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union