GUWonder

Yes. Left out the word “not”, even as I was suggesting to spare them the hassle of getting a UK transit visa.

But do most Chinese citizens with a Schengen visa even need a UK transit visa to do airside transit at say LHR? I thought they didn’t, at least for those with Schengen D visas. Even with Brexit scheduled in a couple of weeks, I expect the transit visa exemption for a lot of Schengen visa holders will remain. Are Schengen type D visas not the most common visas issued by say Spain in China?

Avoiding UK transits is my suggestion either way because it has the transfer security screening hassle that it does and has it doubly at that, but transits in the Schengen zone have transfer security screening too, albeit mostly just on the way in (with some exceptions)..