mutantpoodle wrote:Travel Bridges.........where do they start
I have yet to see anywhere what segregation is planned after getting off the plane (I am talking on arrival in UK)
from my experience one walks often a long way along corriidors mixing with arrivals from all sorts of places
you then fight your way through passport control (even if using electric gates) and then join a scrum at baggage collection
If you go through the e-gates then there is no existing infrastructure to stop you and ask you where you have been. So if the UK is serious about this then an extra level of control would be needed, which would involve stopping everyone and interviewing them. Clearly that will cause massive delays if implemented properly. I'm not even sure there is the space in some airports and terminals to handle that.
And whoever is checking you has no real way of knowing where you have been. That is why they often ask you, but of course they won't know if you are lying (unless your passport was stamped).
This will get more messy if and when the EU implements its ban on arrivals from certain countries. Those plans currently include the US. I find it hard to believe that the UK would ban arrivals from the US. But again, if the UK goes along with that, then it's the same problem. How do you stop every arriving passenger and check that they aren't arriving from the US?
And of course you can get around that by flying from the US to the UK via some third non-EU country like Iceland or Norway.
The whole thing is stupid.