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I'm not sure either tbh, could be fake news. Independent says this :
Frances Coppola, a finance journalist for Forbes and the Financial Times, said airports such as Schiphol appeared to have “jumped the gun” by directing British passport holders to non-EU gates but noted that the change would be implemented across all EU countries from next year.
christianSpaceman-
I suppose airports are free to decide who gets to use the electronic gates, no? Or is that some kind of discrimination thing? However, they obviously have a big interest in making the whole thing as quick as possible so they can avoid queues and improve throughput.
In any case, the pic looks like they just preemptively added the UK flag to the list of 'third countries' that need to be mentioned specifically because they're not in the EU (such as Switzerland), but they're actually still letting them use the egates. For now.
SwissChap
I don't know, the picture very much looks like he's standing in the usual queue for EU-and-associated citizens with electronic passports. This kind of thing, but with the Union Jack added preemptively. (And good god is it an ugly Union Jack, btw, someone really didn't put much time into getting it right)