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#749844 by Bruce
09 Jul 2010, 21:57
If we are only bringing luggage to take on the plane, and I had done OLCI, do I literally arrive at the airport and go through security, with my self-printed boarding pass?

Many thanks,

Bruce
#749845 by tontybear
09 Jul 2010, 22:09
Yes

just remember the 100ml / no sharp object rules for your hand luggahe though
#749852 by MarkedMan
10 Jul 2010, 02:33
I always wondered with VS, since other airlines I have flown TATL in recent years don't do this. Do you get grief at security or anywhere else if you don't have the sticker on the passport? Shouldn't imagine so, but that's the one drawback of not talking to anyone and going straight through on a printed boarding pass.
#749853 by Penny_L
10 Jul 2010, 02:44
MarkedMan wrote:I always wondered with VS, since other airlines I have flown TATL in recent years don't do this. Do you get grief at security or anywhere else if you don't have the sticker on the passport? Shouldn't imagine so, but that's the one drawback of not talking to anyone and going straight through on a printed boarding pass.


I usually travel with just hand luggage, and check in online.
Not having the sticker isnt a problem, they ask the security questions and give the sticker at the departure gate.
#749865 by tontybear
10 Jul 2010, 11:21
Bruce wrote:Thanks for the replies.....Will I also be able to use the fast-track security line?


if you are flying UC then yes you will.
#749875 by Kraken
10 Jul 2010, 17:36
The MAN ground staff were not even bothered about the passport security sticker back in May. They just put it on your passport at the check-in desk without asking any security questions (when collecting purple boarding pass) and they only looked at the photo page of your passport at the boarding gate - I know, as I was holding my passport open, they could not see the back of it.

By contrast, I have travelled in UC through LHR with a dual-national. She had to leave the UK on her UK passport (so presented this at check-in) was duly asked the security questions & passport stickered. At the boarding gate, she presented her US passport (no sticker). The ground staff insisted on asking her all the questions again & stickering the US passport, even when she produced the UK one with a sticker on.

Hmm... MAN ground staff are outsourced. LHR are not (or so I believe). Draw your own conclusions!

James
Virgin Atlantic

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