Neil Williams wrote:
On 2017-01-22 17:03:45 +0000, Recliner said:

Not so much in the airport, because it's a way of registering to use the
gates, and there would still need to be lots of new manual desks for all
those who hadn't pre-registered.

Assuming you accept anyone who hasn't pre-registered. The US doesn't.

The US ESTA is part of a Visa waiver scheme. I'm optimistic that we won't
need visas for casual travel within Europe. As we were never part of
Schengen, I'm hopeful that things won't change much.


But it would require a big bureaucracy to process all the applications.
And, of course, the EU would need an equivalent bureaucracy to process UK
applications. It all seems rather pointless if nearly all applications
from EU citizens are likely to be automatically accepted by default.

True.

Let's hope sense prevails!