General aviation
This page explains how we will communicate with the general aviation industry, and when we plan to start telling them about the requirements they will have to meet for providing information to the e-Borders programme.
We have already started to communicate with the general aviation industry at working groups and general aviation events, including the British Business and General Aviation (BBGA) annual conference in March 2008. We will continue to communicate with this area of the industry in the coming months.
Terms explained
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General aviation
This is the term we use for all plane and helicopter flights except those operated by major airlines and the armed forces. It includes business aviation and executive charter.
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e-Borders
e-Borders is the name of a programme we have set up to introduce electronic border control to the United Kingdom by 2014. It will collect and analyse passenger and crew information provided electronically by carriers (airlines, rail and shipping companies) before travel starts on all journeys to and from the United Kingdom.