{"id":261,"date":"2016-02-02T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-02-02T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:16:42","slug":"uk-registered-traveller-service-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/uk-registered-traveller-service-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Registered Traveller service updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those that enjoy waiting at Immigration can skip this article; for the rest of us, every additional measure in mitigating those delays are more than welcome. Last week the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/registered-traveller\">UK Registered Traveller Service<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0, which is the equivalent of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/travel\/trusted-traveler-programs\/global-entry\">US Global Entry program<\/a><\/strong>, was expanded to include a few more countries: <strong>Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea <\/strong>and<strong> Taiwan<\/strong>. \u00a0Additionally, Bristol and Cardiff will be added to the list of participating airports.<\/p>\n<p>Good news then, especially with the revelation that the <strong>target\u00a0<\/strong>processing time at life-sapping airports like London Heathrow is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/3f92cfb4-2705-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html#axzz3z4DYPVxw\">45 minutes<\/a><\/strong>. If you&#8217;ve had the pleasure to fly to LHR&#8217;s American cousin, JFK, then you may well\u00a0be among those who&#8217;ve waited in the 1-2 hour statistical range.<\/p>\n<p>For positioning crews, airline staff, or\u00a0anyone else that isn&#8217;t eligible for the Duty Crew line &#8211; enrolling in a couple of these programs will prove useful. Global Entry gets you automatic entry into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/tsa-precheck\">TSA Pre\u2713\u00ae <\/a>as well (which will come in handy when you discover that US Domestic queues for TSA are\u00a0as long as the international ones &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those that enjoy waiting at Immigration can skip this article; for the rest of us,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}