<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by The _Banking_Scot:
I arrived at IAD on 5th December and 1st January at 2:30pm and 3:30pm ( VS flights) and when we arrived at Immigration/Customs , no one else was in line so I cleared I/C in less than 10mins ( by the time I arrived at baggae reclaim my bags had already been removed from the carrousel and were on the floor ( VS gold/Premium Economy tag). I have never had a bad experience at IAD. ( Probably just lucky)
Regards
TBS</font>
I have cleared IAD customs about 50 times in the past. Always at 2-4pm on the typical Europe-IAD flight. Always wondered the purpose of the large corral. Usually 6 or so customs agents for US citizens. 5-10 min wait.
This 8pm arrival was a delayed VS LHR flight (5 hours to deice!?). 3 agents and a lot of people pouring in the behind us. The line had to be 90 min long when we past through customs.