BA to fingerprint domestic passengers
Roland Perry
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:19:11 +0000
In article <8E784512-F84A-4BC3-BC67-80DCA58F5266@batten.eu.org>, Ian
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>>> At Birmingham they photograph you as you go through to the
>>>departures, this is then used as you go to the plane.
>>
>> Not at Terminal 2 (unless they whip out a camera if you are flying on
>>one of the several domestic flights).
>
>I think T2 has proper segregation of inbound and outbound passengers,
>though. It's the ability to get from the gate you arrive at to an
>outbound gate which is the threat, and it's an immigration threat, not
>a direct transport security threat.
I wonder if they have any transfer facility at all, at T2? I'm not
flying back that way so can't check. Maybe they use the USA model that
to fly from (eg) Germany to France, via Birmingham, you'd need to clear
UK immigration and check back in. You'd have to do that at EMA.
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Roland Perry