Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
Disgraceful....Aren't the automatic gates working these days ? As all these incoming passengers will have a legitimate and therefore legal right to enter the UK, the requisite number of border control agents should have been on duty to cope with the known number of passengers arriving.
AFAIK the track/trace/Quarantine Hotel personnel are not border staff, so they would be after immigration.
How could they use automatic gates when they have to check that everyone has completed the correct paperwork?