that EU regulations will require an Airport issued Pass if the crew visit more than 5 times a year
Is most unlikely to be enforced. This will entail every airport noting the names of every single person without a local pass passing through their security gates, each way. This will have to be done to deny access to those who have passed by too many times. Or, we'll all have to get local passes for every airport. I'd have to carry twenty or thirty passes as a minimum. Mmmmm.... A regulation truly worthy of the pondlife that deals with security, but not even they would be able to get away with this one.
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