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And not only that in order to validate the passport the MRZ will be read which will provide the known facts that than allow the chip to be read as per the standards. So there are two checks of that already besides the visual inspection by check-in staff. The fines are pretty serious if they don't comply.
Except nothing in the PNR contains a DOB, even if it did, nothing is checked regarding permission to travel.
Both the UKBA and the airline have only a cursory interest on pax leaving the UK. The UKBA for intelligence, and if they aren't known, then there's no interest. The airlines only check you passport to prevent them being fined for carrying someone who presents themselves at a destination boarder with an invalid passport. In none of that is there any permission to travel check, irrespective of age. In any case, the 'ops wrong button pressed' excuse is a easy one to use.
That is quite an assumption Bernie!
The simple fact is, that MANY (not all) young girls from Sunni/Wahhabi families (usually a Pakistani background) have upbringings which are far more controlled and stricter than their peers from outside that particular cultural demographic.
If they were groomed, then was it done locally or via social networking? It looked to me as though they went quite willingly and planned the "excursion" quite well. They may well have had their own bank accounts, but if someone provided tickets then a lot of money wouldn't have been a priority.
Except none of that is my assumption. My point is that everything, from both sides is all assumption, all of it baseless at the moment. It's all "Oh they may be this sect' or 'They must have been groomed' and 'Someone must have paid for the tickets'. But like Steve shows with his comments about bank accounts and money, its based on pure assumption, the reality is that lots of teens, of all races have bank accounts, and money in them. People don't always have to be groomed to do things we might find repugnant and even Muslims who are tightly controlled manage to do things their parents don't approve of.
And Viv...Have you ever got anything constructive to say? I keep looking at what you write, and its very unusual for anything to be useful or that contributes to anything being talked about. Mostly it's snide comments about or too anyone you have taken a dislike to, or has contradicted you.
