Originally Posted by
irishlad06
officially yes and in normal circumstances however permission can be sought from the CAA to keep the transfer passengers onboard so long as it is the same crew operating the flight and nobody joins it at the middle point. Special dispensation can be given for the passengers to be kept onboard and screened at their last point of entry - in this case NCL.
Screened on arrival?? The issue is that a DXB-EDI-NCL drop would see EDI departing pax mixing with inbound pax out of DXB still on biard for NCL who had been cleared to (allegedly) lower standards. The workaround is a costly DXB-NCL-EDI-NCL-DXB.....