Originally Posted by
HIDDY
They know damn fine what the passenger flow rates are.
The cause is probably a mixture of old working (cushy) practices and stubbornly refusing to change with the times. Like deer, the old ones need to be weeded out.
No it's not, it's that the UKBA insists on scanning in everyone's passport, even EEA travellers, and thus clearing a pax every 30-40 seconds instead of every 6-8 seconds like they do in Ireland.