The Airport Inquisition

Britishraj

Travellers Must Answer 53 Questions Before Going Abroad.

Travellers face price hikes and confusion after the British Govnt. unveiled plans to take up to 53 pieces of Info. from ANYONE ENTERING or LEAVING Britian. The measures apply equally to UK residents going abroad and foreigners travelling here. To be introduced from mid 2009. The scheme will apply to every way of leaving the country.

For every journey, security officals will want credit card details, holiday contact Nos. travel plans, e-mail address, car liscence Nos. and even any previous missed flights.

The info. taken when a ticket is bought, will be shared among police, customs, immigration and security services for at least 24 hrs. BEFORE a journey is due to take place.

Anybody about whom the authorities are dubious can be turned away when they arrive at the airport or station with their baggage.

Those with outstanding court fines, such as speeding penalty, could also be barred from leaving the country, even if they pose no security risk. Security will be further tightened at airports.

53 Questions For Travellers ( ENTERING or LEAVING The UK )

1.Full name.
2.Gender
3.Date of birth
4.Nationality.
5.Type of travel document.
6.Travel document No.
7.issuing country of travel doc.
8.Expiry date.
9.Registration of any vehicle used to travel.
10.place of birth.
11.issue date of travel.
12.UK visa or entry clearance expiry date.
13Booking ref. No.
14.Date of reservation.
15.Date(s)of intended travel.
16.Passenger name (if different to full name)
17.Other passengers on same booking.
18.Passengers address.
19.Form of payment, incl.any credit card No.
20.Billing address.
21.Contact Nos. incl.hotel or relative being visited.
22.travel itinerary and route.
23.Frequent flyer info.(miles flown and address)
24.Travel agency.
25.Person or travel agent who made booking.
26.Ref. Nos. of any shared booking.
27.Status of booking e.g. confirmed, wait-listed.
28.Details of passengers on booking with a different itinerary.
29.E-mail address.
30.Ticket Nos. and date of issue.
31.Any other info. the ticket agent considers of interest.
32.Number on ticket.
33.Reserved seat Nos.
34.Date ticket issued.
35.No show history.
36.Bag tag Nos.
37.Details of whether travel arrangements are flexible.
38.Names of any infants or staff in travelling party.
39.Is traveller an unaccompanied minor?
40.Details of who made the booking.
41.All historical changes to travel arrangements.
42.Nos. of travellers in party.
43.Seat info. incl. whether first class.
44.Is the ticket one way only?
45.Any other biographical info.
46.Cost of fare.
47. Check in time.
48.Actual seat Nos.
49.How much luggage checked in?
50.Check-in agent's intials.
51.Out bound travel indicator.
52.Where did the journey begin, if not first-leg of trip.
53.Group indicator of whether a party is a family or friends etc.

If the security personnel do there job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life!

Bon Voyage.

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atala

Aren't these the points to be reported by the airline to the governments, to comply with U.S. anti-terrorist regulations?

I do not think a person has to answer them personally, the system does it for them. Even though it seems to me there are more points here than the E.U. would require.

Nick-H

Of course you might get shot by a policeman while travelling to Heathrow on the underground, then you won't need to worry about any of this.

UK is in a bad way, and it is largely because it fell in with friends who were a bad influence.

capt_mahajan

Nobody can shoot you unless you answer the 53 questions

They should have kept 52, 1 for each card in a pack... but maybe the 53rd one is the joker.

Ontopic, I was asked, seriously, at Gatwick how many wives and how many children I had (while the lady held my passport close to her nose to ensure I wasn't cheating)

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machadinha

... I thought that only worked with pesky teenagers on Indian trains Capt., where to keep them off your backs and much to their impressed astonishment you may want to declare that any and no matter how many women traveling with you are naturally your wives.

<dries eyes> Blurdy L, note to my fellow Westerners: We shall henceforth cease from passing judgement on any nationalities unbeknownst to us.

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capt_mahajan

That was a joke. She asked me how many children I had, and was not amused when I gave her the right answer (besides telling her I had one wife)

The lady was sure I was going to be a security threat while in transit from Gatwick to Heathrow

Britishraj

Nick
I used to tell a joke (quite proudly) about our police in the UK;

A policeman in New York sees a bank robber running off..he draws his gun and Shoots.. Bang! Bang! he's dead. He then shouts STOP!

In L.A. the bank robber is running off. The policeman shouts Stop! or I'll shoot..Bang! Bang! he's dead.

In Britian the bank robber is running off. The policeman shouts STOP! or I'll shout STOP AGAIN!

Sadly, the joke is no longer relavent.

Nick-H

... very funny

Captain, are you sure you weren't going to be a security risk?

capt_mahajan

Nah, long flight from the Caribbean and long flight to take to Bombay. I was in no condition to be anything.

Btw, this question I like. (no. 31)

Hey, this passenger is cute. Phone number should be of interest

Wanderer22

Nick, Canada seems to be going the same way, the fear merchants have been very busy.

This happened at Vancouver airport recently..http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=canada&articl eID=2800824
Very disturbing!

W22

Mickey S

You really do have that ex-pat bitterness about your home country, don't you, Nick?

As has been said, all this information will be passed on by the airline or travel agent on your behalf. They are not questions you will have to answer at the airport.

The British way of life is changing, and a lot less is taken for granted these days than it used to be, but that is due to the fact that there is a large number of people both outside and inside our borders who want only to kill us. Unfortunately, this is the price we pay.

crvlvr

I think I found the joker in the pack:

Although some of the others also look like jokers to me.

alext

How about, Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Stop or I'll shoot again! *reloads* Bang!

Britishraj

Hi Alext
Love it!

Nick-H

Not at all... I would love to be able to afford a home in both places, or even to be able to visit once or twice a year.

But I am horrified at the madness, and the absolute lack of any responsible accountability there. The head of the Met is not going to resign because only one guy got shot. It means it wasn't an endemic failure in the system, you see...

And a guy in a diabetic coma was tasered in UK a couple of years back: he was unconcious on a bus. In a diabetic coma, as it happened. He's just gone public because --- you guessed it, nobody is to be prosecuted, disciplinary action is still being considered, blah blah. After two years.

Its not a safe place any more, and the threat is from the establishment itself.

Sure, I did want to escape some of the current British crap.

But, of course, I hadn't read as many Indian newspapers in those days