Zurich - Gatwick
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Zurich - Gatwick
I was on Easyjet Zurich to London Gatwick last night 21.20 and after passing passport control at Zurich we got to the gate , E52
There was an announcement that we needed to queue at the gate and have our Passports and Boarding passes checked at a stand alone desk without a computer terminal and we were checked by a man in a suit, online printed boarding pass stamped and sent to the gate girl and given a regular Swissair paper boarding pass
Then when called forward to board the same girl scanned the Swissair boarding pass and we were allowed on
The only reason I could think is that Easyjet needed the plane on a domestic stand at Gatwick and we were clearing UK Passort control, in Zurich, but no compter to check for undesirables??
But no when we got to LGW we still had to go through UK Border control
After getting in the UK successfully I asked the UK Border staff supervisor what that was all about and no idea, nothing to do with them
Any experts in Easyjet what was going on or what had they got wrong??
If it helps the gate next to us was a Easyjet flight to Manchester and they were having to do the same
There was an announcement that we needed to queue at the gate and have our Passports and Boarding passes checked at a stand alone desk without a computer terminal and we were checked by a man in a suit, online printed boarding pass stamped and sent to the gate girl and given a regular Swissair paper boarding pass
Then when called forward to board the same girl scanned the Swissair boarding pass and we were allowed on
The only reason I could think is that Easyjet needed the plane on a domestic stand at Gatwick and we were clearing UK Passort control, in Zurich, but no compter to check for undesirables??
But no when we got to LGW we still had to go through UK Border control
After getting in the UK successfully I asked the UK Border staff supervisor what that was all about and no idea, nothing to do with them
Any experts in Easyjet what was going on or what had they got wrong??
If it helps the gate next to us was a Easyjet flight to Manchester and they were having to do the same
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Not just Zurich, also happens in Geneva and Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and anywhere with a direct flight to the UK.
As the Man says it's to save the airline a fine and a return ticket.
As the Man says it's to save the airline a fine and a return ticket.
I was the No.1 on the MAN flight next door to yours. Various airports/ground agents etc have their own way of doing things. A few curious things happen across the network which aren't strictly Easyjet standard. Boarding cards etc would never be anything to do with immigration so asking them would always get the answer you were given and checking passports before boarding is standard. Curiously some passengers, on the MAN atleast, had home printed boarding cards at the aircraft door and whilst I don't actually know why you were re-issued with a swissport boarding card, there will have been a good reason for it.
Are you REALLY sure of that?
