Today the European Court declared that the suppling of passenger details, including credit card details, meal choice, and any one of 34 other pieces of info that the US immigration requires, is an invasion of our rights. They also say that they are not happy with the security of the details supplied.
These details are at present required to be supplied within 15 minutes of an aircraft taking off bound for the US. Airlines who refuse to supply this info, face fines of something like �2000 per passenger, and withdrawal of landing rights for their aircraft. Not a lot of choice there is there?
It is required that these conditions be removed by September this year, and I wonder what will happen next. I can't see all flights to the US ceasing, and I'm sure that retaliation would be swift if the US did this. No US flights to the EEC for instance.
So do we fly to Canada and go by ground transportation into the US, or do we fly to Mexico and walk over like so many others are doing?
Giok
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