Posts by K 5 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2008
Outbound domestic and international passengers mingle in the US, sure - but inbound international passengers in the US, including *all* transfer passengers whether their next destination is the US or elsewhere, must each pass through immigration before they can transfer to any other flight - domestic or international. In the UK, transfer passengers do not pass through UK immigration if their ultimate destination is not the UK. Thus, if domestic and international passengers mix in the departure lounges, and swap tickets, an inbound international passenger from another country can fly to somewhere else in the UK without passing through UK immigration. The solution chosen for this is for everyone boarding domestic flights to be photographed when they enter the airport from landside in the UK, or when as a transfer passenger they have passed through immigration, so that each person who attempts to board a domestic flight must have a photograph proving they've been cleared by UK. Clear? :)
No you can't. I'm working in the Netherlands midweek, and I get the "Unfortunately, we are unable to sell to countries outside the UK" waaaaaaaaaay before I get the chance to even select a tariff, never mind enter my details such as a billing or delivery address. So not only can I not deliver to my UK address (*), I can't even even investigate their offerings whilst abroad. Extraordinary.
(*) assuming that is, that I actually wanted to buy a handset significantly less functional than Windows Pocket PC 2002 Smartphone Edition
Finally the Jesus tariff is reasonably competitive (*), but is it at the expense of the unlimited data and Wi-Fi?
(*) well, not when compared to my free HTC Touch upgrade on T-Mobile's 600 minutes + 600 texts at GBP 15 a month, a TCO well under a quarter of a Jesus.
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