The problem with Fast Track on arrival into Heathrow is that it is only valid for citizens from outside the UK / EU as clearly stated on both the Heathrow Airport https://www.heathrow.com/airport-gui...ces/fast-track and British Airways websites. If you are an EU or UK citizen they turn you back -even if you have a fast track card - and you have to go to back of queue for UK / EU passport holders or head for the electronic passport gates.
Which in my experience, across the EU, have about a 30-50% failure rate as the placement of your passport is absolutely crucial.Originally Posted by Andaman!
Placing the photo page on the glass the right way up (which some people don't even manage) is not enough : the glass area is larger than the detection area and you have to ram the edge of the photo page hard against the far edge of the glass area for your passport to be read.
Even then a considerable number of passports still fail to be read by the software. I read somewhere that the "chip" in the passport can fail and if it does it's tough titty and you'll be expected to fork out for a fresh passport.
Not so ...they are replaced free in those circumstances.
And before you favourite mod accuses me of publishing duff gen again, see here...
http://www.alphr.com/news/servers/10...-year-warranty
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