"US Official" bars child from Boarding LHR-LAS Flight
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Well if Nigella isn't the only person to admit taking drugs do you think maybe somebody else has too?
Want me to walk you through it step by step?
Want me to walk you through it step by step?
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DaveReid. A claim for denied boarding would fail. This situation is not contemplated in EC Regulation 261. No airline would carry passengers that they have been told will not be admitted. It is not Virgin's fault, they simply cannot carry those passengers into US airspace. If they tried they, no doubt, would be greeted with F-15/16s and forced to turn back or divert to Canada/Bermuda.
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You could start with the reason why someone the DM suspects of trying to smuggle drugs would then want to sell his story to them ...
> Nobody has mentioned smuggling except you.
OK OK, my mistake, I should have said guilty of drug supply or usage, that's what you were implying with your "those who admitted to taking drugs", was it not?
But the proposition that his denied boarding could have been as result of drug-related convictions is even more absurd. Any journo worth his salt, even one from the Daily Mail, would have been able to ascertain that and there would have been no need to "hint hint".
I'd give up on the druggy insinuations, if I were you, you are reading something into that article that just isn't there.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be something as simple as his name matching someone who has been recently added to the no-fly list. Plenty of documented instances of that.
OK OK, my mistake, I should have said guilty of drug supply or usage, that's what you were implying with your "those who admitted to taking drugs", was it not?
But the proposition that his denied boarding could have been as result of drug-related convictions is even more absurd. Any journo worth his salt, even one from the Daily Mail, would have been able to ascertain that and there would have been no need to "hint hint".
I'd give up on the druggy insinuations, if I were you, you are reading something into that article that just isn't there.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be something as simple as his name matching someone who has been recently added to the no-fly list. Plenty of documented instances of that.
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No that's not what I'm implying. There is a difference between taking drugs and taking drugs somewhere you're not allowed to, ie. Smuggling. Also there's a difference between admitting to and being convicted of.
How would you know he hadn't admitted to smoking a doobie or two in the past and that was enough to bar him from travelling?
Anyway, I wasn't insinuating as my first post was a question.
How would you know he hadn't admitted to smoking a doobie or two in the past and that was enough to bar him from travelling?
Anyway, I wasn't insinuating as my first post was a question.
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How would you know he hadn't admitted to smoking a doobie or two in the past and that was enough to bar him from travelling?
My money is in line with DaveR, most likely mis-identification. I believe that the only way to resolve that is indeed through the US Embassy. Meanwhile the poor guy is out of pocket through no fault of his own. Perhaps travel insurance companies should cover this eventuality in their policies (as long as it is proven that the claimant was wrongly denied boarding by Border authorities).
