A thank you to Brexiteers.
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bimble
floofy
Yeah it’s fun doing that, going in the EU queue, laughing at the English and feeling all smug. Maybe that counts as a brexit benefit, for arseholes like you and me, idk.No. Because it's a failing entity, run by crooks.
Years ago. Love it. I used it for the first time in anger this year though. I went to Faro in June and there was a special entry queue for Brits. Several flights had just landed from the UK, and the immigration hall was absolutely packed except for the completely clear EU channel. I elbowed my way through and used that one, then looked back at the crowd and grinned at the thought that it was probably full of remoniacs!
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Totally!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you never put in the adoption papersNo. Because it's a failing entity, run by crooks.
Years ago. Love it. I used it for the first time in anger this year though. I went to Faro in June and there was a special entry queue for Brits. Several flights had just landed from the UK, and the immigration hall was absolutely packed except for the completely clear EU channel. I elbowed my way through and used that one, then looked back at the crowd and grinned at the thought that it was probably full of remoniacs!
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Nah, it'll just mutate again, like a virus. It's too beneficial to its two senior members, to be dissolved.
Doing better than the UK then, which can't even boast being too beneficial for even one of its members.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the decision may be removed from the chancelleries of berlin and paris
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Probably less entertainin too
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
uh, the guy who made that video, who's presenting it. His name is Phil and he talks about politics. Quite popularly too, it seems
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I know someone who works at Faro for SEF ( border control) You can just ignore the non EU Lane at Faro and use any of them as they all have the same terminals to the system . All passports or EU ID cards get scanned anyway now. Obviously U.K. passports get stamped unless the the holder has residency in an EU state.No. Because it's a failing entity, run by crooks.
Years ago. Love it. I used it for the first time in anger this year though. I went to Faro in June and there was a special entry queue for Brits. Several flights had just landed from the UK, and the immigration hall was absolutely packed except for the completely clear EU channel. I elbowed my way through and used that one, then looked back at the crowd and grinned at the thought that it was probably full of remoniacs!
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That didn't look to be an option when I was there this summer. The crowd in the hall was going all the way back up the stairs and there were officials funnelling people towards the non-EU lanes. Every now and then a woman came by asking if anyone had EU passports and dragged us through.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
This used to be “the EU will collapse in a few months when the UK pulls out, France, Italy will all leave”. Now it’s “within your lifetime”. Progress…
bimble
floofy
err. do you see the issue here? The scanning machines they don't do stamps. thats why theres big queues, for people with the Uk passports, cos they need stamps.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Bimble's quite old though.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Not only do I see the issue I also understand how it works , the bloke who works for SER knows how it works and I use the EU aisles as well as the non EU . Theory /practice/ theory / practice.
bimble
floofy
ok. Maybe Spy was there on a bad day then , a theory day or something.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
We can only go on each of our own experiences. I went out and back first week July , then first week October . Despite being modernised a few years ago that airport is fucked if they get three flights arriving at once . Very often the scab self scan terminals aren’t even open .
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
No need to feed into the snide that was identified up thread Bimble .
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
We weren’t talking about self scan . As I’ve said those terminals at Faro very often aren’t open .
How many passports have you got btw ?
bimble
floofy
3.
When the self scan ones are open at Faro, the Uk passports can't use them though can they, because stamps.
So when they are open, people like Spy and me can use them, and get out the airport relatively quickly, but the Uk passport peope have to wait in a different slower queue. don't they.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
3 passports ? I shouldn’t have asked tbh as you could be inundated with questions from one poster as to if you got these before during or after the referendum and which way you voted .
We will all have to meet at Faro and test this out , bit like a time trial .
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I'm pretty sure UK passports work at biomentric gates in Spain and Portugal.
bimble
floofy
It’s the stamping thing, post brexit.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The gates still work for UK passport holders though. They're urged to get stamps as well but most won't bother.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I am sure I read that a) the stamping thing was at the request of the U.K. govt. (The SER bloke says that their system is a simple ‘fingerprint’ of passport in/ out )
b) that you are right that the self service gates do work for U.K. passports at Faro and Lisbon . ( I’ll see if I can find the big in one of the Brit Portuguese papers )
Anyway it’s true to say that some travellers have suffered and will suffer some relatively minor inconvenience .
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