Recent content by Reliablebeam

It doesn't seem to accept departures at the minute, at least for Sweden!

Sorry I've been away (no thanks to BA) - there's a whole thread on it here - most of it still holds. Sweden is one of the countries you can actually use the 'Travel to Europe' app, although it's unclear to me whether it actually makes the process any easier. I think the only thing it does do...

I think you'll find I am not a 'little Englander' and I actually work in a field that has been impacted badly by Brexit! I'm being a realist, which is given the number of journeys between the UK and 'Schengen land' this system just doesn't work. I am a bit surprised given the current debates...

But isn't this a big part of the problem, that individual countries are basically able to choose how they want to implement this system? I've had completely different experiences entering Spain or France versus the unpleasant, deliberate problems and aggravation going into the Sweden and...

Euroflyer is BA branded subsidiary that operates short haul out of Gatwick (I think a lot of people don't realise this) - they have separate crew, separate callsign, although the pilots at least can apparently move into mainline BA and they follow BA SOP. It seems to have most of the older A32x...

@camflyer above is spot on about how poor the Euro Traveller product is. I had an interesting one today with BA. I travel a reasonable amount with work but don't get away often on actual, proper holiday i.e. not days snatched around work trips. This year I thought to use BA flight + hotel to...

I don't have much to add other than I've used Cityflyer a few times for business and leisure travel - it's markedly better than the BA 'Euro Traveller' (economy) product down the back - as per others I was pleasantly surprised to find they still offer bar service! The crews I've had have been...

I had a mess up tonight leaving Basel - I entered the French side a few days previous, done quickly and efficiently. The exit desks, at least for the BA flight seem to manned by the Swiss. They took ages to sort out my exit and were muttering in that Swiss German that's not easy to understand...

Not long ago had a trip to Sweden - Entered in Gothenburg Landvetter, exited Stockholm Arlanda. On exit at Arlanda the border guard couldn't find my entry details leading to him faffing around with his computer for about five minutes. I also agree their central database seems suspect. I also...

It's like they've taken everything that's bad about other international systems and combined it into one - as I said upthread I tried to play ball with this system by pre-registering on the Visit EU app - Sweden being the only country it works for - and it made no difference, you still have to...

@Class73Electro Apologies for not closing the loop on this, I only had my work devices on this trip and could not log in here! Basically, I registered my trip on the Entry to Europe app. I was in business and was one of the first to arrive at passport control on a sunday afternoon. The app...

I believe it is. I will report back later this weekend as I have to pass through here. Dreading to think how bad it will be, but I've filled out this 'Travel to Europe' app - currently Sweden is the only country using it!!

Thanks @MalaiseForever for the reports on Finland, and others for their experiences. It's difficult to get good summaries of places to avoid in Schengen-land going forwards, but some of the feedback on here is helpful. I'll preface my remarks here by saying I am a Remainer who works in a field...

I suspect at places like Rovaniemi this will be handled very, very badly. I've not been to Finland post-Brexit but I've heard anecdotes of it being similar to other Nordic countries i.e. checks made are quite thorough, badly organised and particular enjoyment derived from being nasty...

I've not actually seen one in the flesh for a while but as FrodshamJnct points out they are still knocking around and probably will for a while yet in niche roles. I flew them many times with Virgin Atlantic and Etihad and I have to say I much preferred them to the 777 - relatively quiet cabins...