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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Cut extra red tape for Heathrow airport transit passengers, Lords committee urges government

Simon Calder

The demand for passengers merely changing planes at Heathrow to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) should be dropped, a Lords committee says.

The Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the House of Lords has written to Tom Pursglove, minister for Legal Migration and the Border, with strong criticism of the scheme – and citing that the need for an ETA is already driving away transit travellers.

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