The rules are intended to prevent someone profiting commercially from filming on BAA premises without so much as asking. There was no intention to prevent anyone taking a family photo in the terminal. However given that many of the yellow jacket brigade are, shall we say, not possesed of a good sense of judgement, many enjoy stopping people doing what's not supposed to be against the rules. I have been screamed at on the ramp at LGW for daring to take a photo of a Dash 8 I was about to board, but most times people glance and see there is no harm.
What happens like all regulation, is that over time, it is vulnerable to mission creep and the law of unintended consequences.
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 24th Jun 2012 at 13:24.