Originally Posted by
Too much travel
I know the ETA sounds like a big hassle, but it takes literally one minute to apply for an ETA. Or to be precise it takes one minute between forking out your £20 and you receiving confirmation of your ETA acceptance. Hopefully your friend figured that out whilst queueing up at the MCO check-in counter.
OP specifically says (at time of writing) they were still waiting for approval, so it was clearly not ‘literally one minute’ to receive confirmation of acceptance in this case.