went to register for IRIS but was told not to bother as they were phasing it out in favour of those crappy face recognition machines.
Yep, both machines working in T5A this AM
but when asked by yours truely one of the officials confirmed that IRIS is being phased out in favour of facial recognition.
Trouble is my non-chipped passport still has 3 years of validity...ah well back to the future ( and the EU nationals queue) for me in