Another goodie about UK airports others may not know.

For UK Immigrations, the Home Office established some type of rule that immigration queues are no longer than 30 minutes. The "penalty" from what I understand was handled internally within immigrations.

I know someone who used to work for the Home Office, which is how I found this out. OTOH, it is possible things may have changed over the past couple of years.

I've known about the BAA line fines for some time. That is why the BAA would often direct non-premium pax into the FastTrack line (at LGW S, at least). As a result, I would often be holding a NW WBC ticket which means I paid the ++ tax for travelling in a higher level of service. I would get into the LGW S FastTrack security line with a Fast Track sticker on my ticket jacket and be surrounded by folks with EasyJet boarding passes.

The result, the FastTrack line at LGW S was just as long as all of the other queues. When I spoke to a NW agent at LGW about this, they explained the max wait time rule and told me how security was doing everything, including opening the flood gates for Fast Track, to keep the time down.

I haven't been back to the UK since the liquid rules and 1 bag rule went into affect.

Against my better judgement (I got a good deal) and now have my status with OW, I'll be transfering at LHR late this month and again next month.