Originally Posted by
haywardvandal
It was the later flight that day they offered, but we had good seats pre-booked on this flight and didn't want to arrive later. I know that later in the day there is another 747 VS flight from LGW and also MAN, so it would have been very busy at immigration by then.
From my experience, nothing to worry about.
We landed on the 2039 in the summer. A fast flight and a delay on the VS made things look quite good but BA only seem to use 1 gate at MCO so we had to wait for the 2036(?) to leave before we could park. As we sat there I watched a VS 747 pull past & park up
Needless to say, immigration was very efficient - loads of desks open, they were expecting the 'invasion' and we were through after maybe a 10 minute wait. By this time, the bags were on the belt!
For those heading to TPA, the airport gets very few international flights. Immigration hall was a reasonable size (maybe 4 desks for aliens???) but it helps to be as close to the front as possible...