Originally Posted by
GUWonder
That just about describes what is going on in most of Europe on flights to the US on US carriers and for Argentina to the US flights too.
His 35 minutes is an anomaly - I flew out at a non-peak hour last weekend and it took a fair chunk longer - for the first time, the security line was backed up to the entry of that area, but the passport control line took less time than usual. Check-in (LAN J at 4pm) only took a few minutes.