Reply to: Brits to spend an hour longer in EU airports

[Zigenare]

eGates are manually verified by the people at a desk as you walk through, and a whole team in a back office.

The eGates look for 2 out of three hits on select variables & verify biometrics amongst other things - and flag these as per Europol & Interpol requirements, but a rolling list of people passing through along along with their API, origin, destination and a whole bunch of other stuff including photo is watched by real people.

My stuffed monkey consults on these matters

Looks like a reasonable case of "Right of substitution".

[clearedforlanding]

eGates don't seem to care about that. But lots of people don't know how to use them. They'll spend multiple minutes trapped in the cage pressing random pages against the scanner.

eGates are manually verified by the people at a desk as you walk through, and a whole team in a back office.

The eGates look for 2 out of three hits on select variables & verify biometrics amongst other things - and flag these as per Europol & Interpol requirements, but a rolling list of people passing through along along with their API, origin, destination and a whole bunch of other stuff including photo is watched by real people.

My stuffed monkey consults on these matters

[Zigenare]

I never said I was single or married, again you are wrong in any event, I rarely take her on business trips. In the good old days I drove twice a week to Germany and back and later weekly to NL until I stayed there for some years.

Customs used to ask where have I been, once I said Holland you can imagine what goes through their minds

[Panto Season]
Oh yes you did!
[/Panto Season]

Read your original post...

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that a smuggler would travel with a wife and kids.

FFS, you really are a clueless fuqwit.

[Paddy]

I never had you pegged as single. I thought you'd be fighting them off with a tulipty stick given your witty repartee!

Still, goes to show how wrong you can be. At least I got the fact that you're a clueless correct.

I never said I was single or married, again you are wrong in any event, I rarely take her on business trips. In the good old days I drove twice a week to Germany and back and later weekly to NL until I stayed there for some years.

Customs used to ask where have I been, once I said Holland you can imagine what goes through their minds

[Zigenare]

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that a smuggler would travel with a wife and kids.

I never had you pegged as single. I thought you'd be fighting them off with a tulipty stick given your witty repartee!

Still, goes to show how wrong you can be. At least I got the fact that you're a clueless correct.

[shaunbhoy]

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that I am viewed as a social misfit.

ftfy

[Paddy]

This seems to be mostly a game of not standing behind anyone who does not have white skin.

My first wife was black. Never managed a trip on the chunnel without getting pulled over for further inspection.

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that a smuggler would travel with a wife and kids.

[d000hg]

This seems to be mostly a game of not standing behind anyone who does not have white skin.

My first wife was black. Never managed a trip on the chunnel without getting pulled over for further inspection.

eGates don't seem to care about that. But lots of people don't know how to use them. THey'll spend multiple minutes trapped in the cage pressing random pages against the scanner.

[clearedforlanding]

Well, I suppose if you want to blame it on your first wife then go ahead. Which side of the chunnel would you say is the least racist?

Assuming you mean border controls & customs racial profiling neither. Problems on both side.

[Zigenare]

This seems to be mostly a game of not standing behind anyone who does not have white skin.

My first wife was black. Never managed a trip on the chunnel without getting pulled over for further inspection.

Well, I suppose if you want to blame it on your first wife then go ahead. Which side of the chunnel would you say is the least racist?

[clearedforlanding]

Similar in normal passport queues

This seems to be mostly a game of not standing behind anyone who does not have white skin.

My first wife was black. Never managed a trip on the chunnel without getting pulled over for further inspection.

[MasterBait]

The joys of eGates. Making sure you pay close attention to who is in front to detect who is clearly not going to be able to make it work and move to a different one.

Similar in normal passport queues

[d000hg]

The joys of eGates. Making sure you pay close attention to who is in front to detect who is clearly not going to be able to make it work and move to a different one.

[ladymuck]

There was quite some queuing when I got back from Portugal earlier this month on the UK side. I think all four flights that were due in that day arrived at the same time.

On entry to Portugal, there was no queuing. I was more annoyed at how rubbish their eGates were. On arrival their gates couldn't read my passport so I had to go to a desk. On departure, the first gate I tried didn't even acknowledge I had put my passport onto the scanner. It took a couple of attempts at another gate before it worked as expected. People complain about the UK eGates but they're just as flaky overseas.

[Eirikur]

Who's flying anywhere? Nobody to queue behind.

Me, 4 times over the last 6 months