Originally Posted by bostonpilot

I'm in the UK right now on my third C round trip in 2022 + 1 in Nov. 2021. All of my flights were approx 50%-75% full in C up until this week. Every flight option I looked at was 100% full and my hopes to make a change to my routing back to the US tomorrow is looking very unlikely due to how full flights are. Same story with LHR in general, the Heathrow Express, and my train out of Paddington to Wales, everything is a whole lot busier than it was when I was here a few weeks ago. Worse yet, passport control at LHR was absolutely brutal at 10am on Sunday morning - over 1hr to get through the E-gates vs <5 min over my last 4 trips.

I sure wish the arrivals lounge was open again though.....hopefully soon.