Originally Posted by
bobhope2
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56209431
I have to travel to Heathrow in the next few weeks and I would like to avoid turning up at the busiest times. Does anybody know if there is anywhere on the web that shows passenger arrival numbers / popular time - kind of like the google bar charts showing "it's a little busier than normal at Ikea" type thing?
Apart from manually looking at the flight arrivals and the number of planes (which of course could be near empty or completely full) - I would think pre-covid avoiding Fridays / Sundays / Mondays / early mornings / evenings would have been my best guess, but who knows what weekly travel patterns look like now.
In post
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33078733-post6333.html DaveS has kindly provided a guide to the number of flight arrivals through the day at T2 if that helps.
I came into T2 this morning (Sunday), flight landed at 6.10 from IAD, and there were 20 passengers on my flight. They were segregating people based on passport - not sure exactly how. I thought the person in front of me said he was from Austria, but I could have misheard. They sent him and me to the egate side, where there was one person checking docs (queue depth was 2-3 people in front of me), then waving us onward to the egates. The egate depth was about 1-2 people and I was through the whole thing in less than 5 minutes. The non egate side looked like much longer lines, although probably no more than pre-Covid non egate lines, maybe 40 people deep, with a few desks open.
So your processing time may also depend a lot on what passport you are traveling on.