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Interesting doc, good find!

I think they also make a bit of money from fining airlines who carry non-admissible passengers to UK. But it pales into insignificance vs the £4bn a year of APD...

And yes somehow I grumble about $21 US ESTA but not about $100+£42 for US Global Entry I happily pay. :)

The reported problem is that the airline in the US might not know you ALSO have a UK/IE passport so thinks you need a UK ETA to travel to UK.

So you they won't let you check-in online and might need to talk to a human.

Ouf, yes, you absolutely must enter the US on your US passport if you are a citizen, but the UK is not quite the same.

The passport you leave one country on doesn't have to be the same you enter the next with.

You can (probably should!) enter UK on your UK passport, you explicitly do not need an ETA. A friend of mine in the same situation did this two days ago without issues.

It's the airlines who haven't remembered that dual citizens exist...

They've paid $100 to someone, but it for sure wasn't the UK government... www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

Nah. it's £10 or about $12 - don't fall for scam sites

It's not much of a money grab when you consider a flight across the pond already has at least £90 of APD (tax) on it. They don't need this complicated service just to earn a mere tenner

Not really, once you realise the tax (APD) on your return flight is at least £90 already. They don't need another way to charge an extra tenner

No visa, just the similar ETA thing to US ESTA and the (forever-delayed) EU ETIAS scheme. Canada and Australia also similar

It's indeed a bit tedious to be visiting all these websites and paying a tenner