Britische Reisende dürfen E-Gates auf weiteren Flughäfen in Europa nutzen
British travellers allowed to use e-gates at more airports in Europe
Von corbynista2029
Britische Reisende dürfen E-Gates auf weiteren Flughäfen in Europa nutzen
British travellers allowed to use e-gates at more airports in Europe
Von corbynista2029
19 Kommentare
How long until certain commenters in this sub try to spin this as bad news somehow?
As a frequent traveller I find it slightly amusing how much of a big deal people are making of this. In the past year and a half I’ve travelled to Mexico, Thailand x2 and Singapore. All of which allowed me to use e-gates. I’ve even used them in an EU country (Portugal).
This is just the way modern countries are going – stamps are an old method that are being phased out in many places as it reduces costs (less border staff). I reckon in a decade a passport will just be a photocard without space to stamp anything.
Fully digital passports on your phone are even being trialed now in Finland but it will be a while before the whole world switches to them. That is the future though.
This is so goated. I travel like 10 times a year and this is going to save me so much time.
I had a small window with the metric scanning passport before they cut it off in 2023 and it was heaven!
I feel betrayed. We voted to control our own destiny with our own control points. /S
The EU countries could have always done this. They chose not to.
How very kind of the EU to restore to us the same privileges as we’ve always given them at our borders
I genuinely could not care any less about this, it feels like very poor value.
But, but the British people voted for longer queues and greater inconvenience at EU airports!! How dare they betray Brexit like this?
/s
Is there any chance this could unfuck the western Channel ferry routes? Was waiting for two hours at Caen last summer.
Was absolutely ridiculous they stopped us using them.
All the work to get them up and running was done, everyone had paid for the passports with the chips, airports had bought all the infrastructure, all the data stored on them was still accurate etc. etc.
Purely a punishment move.
Okay, as someone who doesn’t travel (and hasn’t since before Brexit) what does this mean?
Was there a technical reason for stopping this in the first place? I recall some drama around brexit about access to databases…maybe that?
Cause more egate use means less inefficient human desks = taxpayer money saved. So seems to me there is an inherent incentive to funnel anyone with reasonably trustworthy chip passports through them…regardless of which side of brexit fence the country is on
Hooray! One of those mythical Brexit bonuses we’ve been waiting for! /s
Like standing in line for a few minutes matters. U.K. still has the right to visit EU countries for up to 4 months a year as it stands. The delusion that pre Brexit you could just decide to move to another EU Country is such a massive fallacy. You had to have a permanent work contract or demonstrate independent wealth.
Not sure why the excitement about this. On a recent arrival at TFS there was a very long and slow queue of british tourists. At the end of the queue was a bank of e-gate machines! Being tested, with a long line of captive test subjects. It looked to be going about as well as the machines that went into Post Offices a few years back where each user needed to be assisted the whole time. Defeating the entire point.
So… it isn’t the tech being used, it’s the flow rate! And there will still be an EU queue and a separate U.K. queue.
Big fucking deal. Sure it’s annoying having to wait longer to clear passport control, but it’s about the least damaging aspect of Brexit.
Remember freedom of movement? You could live and work in any of the EU countries with NO restrictions.
There were loads of opportunities for long term and short term skilled and unskilled jobs
I lived and worked in Germany, Holland, France and Switzerland. I learned languages, made friends, had great experiences. It enriched my life. But a bunch of moronic cunts took those rights away from all of us and from our children….for what?
Great news. Now all the British passport holders can get out of my „foreigners“ queue when I go to Europe as I’m pretty much the only non Brit on the flight. You’ll all just be on the other side of the room in the same queue full of the same people from the flight, and I’ll get to be back in the short line again.
When I first read that headline I thought how would they know if you are apart of the travelling community or not?
The boarding school comments upset a few people.
https://voxeurop.eu/en/erasmus-inequality-affects-the-exchange-scheme-designed-to-unite-europe/