BA to fingerprint domestic passengers

[Ian Batten]

On 03 Mar 08, at 2111, Andrew Sutcliffe wrote:

>
> At Birmingham they photograph you as you go through to the  
> departures, this is then used as you go to the plane.
> Quite what this achieves is beyond me. any terrorist is likely to  
> be suicidal by nature, so where's the benefit?

See previous discussion on how this is probably an alternative to  
segregation of outbound and transfer passengers, related to  
immigration control, not terrorism.

Of course, the terrorist==suicide meme is a new one: historically  
they were anything but suicidal.

ian