travel restrictions for Europeans?
#16
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What amazes me is some of the data quoted in the artilcles. 75% and 60% succes of getting devices through LAX and Chicago respectively by undercover staff??
What was it like before the security was racheted up? And presumably that is for departing from those airports? Is the European data similar? Or are LHR et al keeping the devices out???
I was subjected to a secondary the other day and it didn't reassure me at all.
What was it like before the security was racheted up? And presumably that is for departing from those airports? Is the European data similar? Or are LHR et al keeping the devices out???
I was subjected to a secondary the other day and it didn't reassure me at all.
#17
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Are you sure???? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ma...travel-103.xml
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...&sn=003&sc=774
and also
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...&sn=012&sc=310
#19
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 2,813
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Last February I flew into San Francisco and the immigration agent opened my passport, flipped a few pages and then asked where my visa was. I thought that was a bit strange seeing as how she was looking at an American passport. I politely asked if I needed one. She looked a bit closer and then said, 'Sorry' and handed it back and shrugged. 'It's been a long day.'
#21
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Gordon Bean's (sorry Brown's) "Air Passenger Duty Tax" of $80 on Long Haul Departures (Coach Class) out of the UK, has helped put the kabosh on Brits travelling long distances out of the UK.:curse:
I flew first class in September, out of Heathrow, and my wife and I had to pay $160 each in APDT - (thanks to a connection in the Airline).
Jim.
I flew first class in September, out of Heathrow, and my wife and I had to pay $160 each in APDT - (thanks to a connection in the Airline).
Jim.
#22
And YOU'RE paying for it!
Joined: May 2007
Location: kipper tie?
Posts: 2,328
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Meh, airlines don't pay tax on fuel, do they? Air travel is still cheap.
If our clients could plan all their requirements a year in advance, that would definitely make some of my colleagues happy!
If our clients could plan all their requirements a year in advance, that would definitely make some of my colleagues happy!
#23
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Make them apply for visa's to come to Europe. Granted, most Americans don't have passports or even know where Europe is, but it will certinaly make the big businesses unhappy. And after all, we all know that its the big business that run America.
#24
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I say we just implement ourself, anything that they implement.
Make them apply for visa's to come to Europe. Granted, most Americans don't have passports or even know where Europe is, but it will certinaly make the big businesses unhappy. And after all, we all know that its the big business that run America.
Make them apply for visa's to come to Europe. Granted, most Americans don't have passports or even know where Europe is, but it will certinaly make the big businesses unhappy. And after all, we all know that its the big business that run America.
It's over there >>> somewhere.
#25
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But the passport thing ain't:
UK passports issued
2006: 6.31m
2005: 6.39m
2004: 6.05m
2003: 5.64m
2002: 5.58m
2001: 5.71m
2000: 5.15m
US passports issued
2006: 12.13m
2005: 10,12m
2004: 8.83m
2003: 7.30m
2002: 7.00m
2001: 7,12m
2000: 7.29m
Given the population difference, it's staggering. Interesting to see how the figure peaks from 2004 and the announcement of more restrictive border crossings. The UK one just seems to mirror the general increase in the population.
UK passports issued
2006: 6.31m
2005: 6.39m
2004: 6.05m
2003: 5.64m
2002: 5.58m
2001: 5.71m
2000: 5.15m
US passports issued
2006: 12.13m
2005: 10,12m
2004: 8.83m
2003: 7.30m
2002: 7.00m
2001: 7,12m
2000: 7.29m
Given the population difference, it's staggering. Interesting to see how the figure peaks from 2004 and the announcement of more restrictive border crossings. The UK one just seems to mirror the general increase in the population.
#26
Re: travel restrictions for Europeans?
But the passport thing ain't:
UK passports issued
2006: 6.31m
2005: 6.39m
2004: 6.05m
2003: 5.64m
2002: 5.58m
2001: 5.71m
2000: 5.15m
US passports issued
2006: 12.13m
2005: 10,12m
2004: 8.83m
2003: 7.30m
2002: 7.00m
2001: 7,12m
2000: 7.29m
Given the population difference, it's staggering. Interesting to see how the figure peaks from 2004 and the announcement of more restrictive border crossings. The UK one just seems to mirror the general increase in the population.
UK passports issued
2006: 6.31m
2005: 6.39m
2004: 6.05m
2003: 5.64m
2002: 5.58m
2001: 5.71m
2000: 5.15m
US passports issued
2006: 12.13m
2005: 10,12m
2004: 8.83m
2003: 7.30m
2002: 7.00m
2001: 7,12m
2000: 7.29m
Given the population difference, it's staggering. Interesting to see how the figure peaks from 2004 and the announcement of more restrictive border crossings. The UK one just seems to mirror the general increase in the population.
I just saw my first passport in the flesh a few months ago, my parents are going to Mexico and had to get them.
#27
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 6,669
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About time you get yourself one the big fella. You're going over to the UK one of these fine days
#28
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You can travel a long, long way without having to have a passport. Granted, this will exclude the rest of North America soon but still, given the average person's finances and time off work, a trip overseas isn't feasible. It's mainly the paid time off work: I have a friend in the UK who's currently visiting wildlife parks in Africa. This would be impossible for most people here. She and her husband are anything BUT well off.
There's a mindset in the UK of "where are you holidaying this year" that there can never be here unless we have the time to do it. I ain't holding my breath, especially now that the worries about the economy have been jacked up so high, and it'll just be another excuse in a few years.
There's a mindset in the UK of "where are you holidaying this year" that there can never be here unless we have the time to do it. I ain't holding my breath, especially now that the worries about the economy have been jacked up so high, and it'll just be another excuse in a few years.
#29
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You can travel a long, long way without having to have a passport. Granted, this will exclude the rest of North America soon but still, given the average person's finances and time off work, a trip overseas isn't feasible. It's mainly the paid time off work: I have a friend in the UK who's currently visiting wildlife parks in Africa. This would be impossible for most people here. She and her husband are anything BUT well off.
There's a mindset in the UK of "where are you holidaying this year" that there can never be here unless we have the time to do it. I ain't holding my breath, especially now that the worries about the economy have been jacked up so high, and it'll just be another excuse in a few years.
There's a mindset in the UK of "where are you holidaying this year" that there can never be here unless we have the time to do it. I ain't holding my breath, especially now that the worries about the economy have been jacked up so high, and it'll just be another excuse in a few years.
Not sex. Vacation time.
It seems there is a reciprocal agreement on cultural knowledge also.
#30
And YOU'RE paying for it!
Joined: May 2007
Location: kipper tie?
Posts: 2,328
Re: travel restrictions for Europeans?
All you're really saying is that you can't swing a cat through Europe without it going through customs, and that the UK doesn't have ID cards. Whoop-de-doo.