Originally Posted by
Captain Schmidt
I'd be concerned if I were you. It sounds like British immigration is stalking you. Since exit checks were abolished however many years ago that was, I have encountered UK immigration a grand total of once and that was in T3 at LHR and I must have departed a couple of hundred times from LHR (T1, T3, T4, T5), LGW (S and N), STN, LCY and EDI to destinations outside the UK.
Why would they need to stalk me? I am a UK citizen.
They're only stalking me if they are stalking all the other people who have their passports checked as they depart on the same day at the same time!
By the way, immigration applies to entering the country, not to leaving it.
As others have stated, the abolition of exit checks was rescinded and is now applied on a sporadic basis - although in my case it has been done every time. I have even had to submit to it when flying from STN to Edinburgh, as STN does not have a separate facility for domestic (within UK) flights.