Passport question for cabin crew?
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Passport question for cabin crew?
I was just wondering how you guys get on what with going through immigration all the time with your passports.
I know you can get a passport with a lot of pages for them to stamp but do you have to pay for a new passport yourself each time yours is full. I can imagine this getting quite costly.
Just a question that has been bugging me for a while! Thanks
I know you can get a passport with a lot of pages for them to stamp but do you have to pay for a new passport yourself each time yours is full. I can imagine this getting quite costly.
Just a question that has been bugging me for a while! Thanks
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Speaking of BA LGW here...
We have US Visas so no stamps for the USA.
Other than that we never get our passport stamped unless we ask them to for souvenir purposes etc...
In certain places (ANU/BLQ/FCO) we just walk thru the immigration and they take the fact we are in uniform as gospel - sometimes crossing our names against the gen dec and our ID's.
Other places (BDA) we literally sign ourselves into the country. Nothing is looked at.
Then places like UVF/AMS we have to fill in a landing and deoarture card as per you guys SLF.
When it comes to passports BA pay for the renewal plus any visa renewals
We have US Visas so no stamps for the USA.
Other than that we never get our passport stamped unless we ask them to for souvenir purposes etc...
In certain places (ANU/BLQ/FCO) we just walk thru the immigration and they take the fact we are in uniform as gospel - sometimes crossing our names against the gen dec and our ID's.
Other places (BDA) we literally sign ourselves into the country. Nothing is looked at.
Then places like UVF/AMS we have to fill in a landing and deoarture card as per you guys SLF.
When it comes to passports BA pay for the renewal plus any visa renewals
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Crew rarely tend to get passports stamped to be honest. Generally we bypass passport control. There are a handful of places such as China and a few middle eastern countries which still stamp passports but thats about it!
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I'm glad to say that South Africa is also one of those countries where crew go through a specific entrance that does not involve the protracted nightmare that is emigration.
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Most countries we do not (officiallly) enter, but are just in transit. Therefor we don't need special thick passes und have only the rare stamp of exotic countries like China, Russian Federation or Brasil.
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many frequent fliers will have 2 passports. Useful if you need to apply for a visa but need to travel in the mean time, plus gives extra space for stamps! Not all countries allow this though.
