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My friend is about to fly solo from London Heathrow (LHR) to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) - it's a direct flight. I have no worries about LHR as we have both navigated it together many times. However, neither of us has been to CVG. Does anyone know if it is a fairly easy airport to navigate? I'm a assuming it's pretty standard - get off the plane and follow signs for immigration to get passport checked then collect checked bag then go through customs?

At U.S. airports, a passenger arriving from LHR on a nonstop flight is not going to be given the option of not going through Immigration and Customs (unless an airport ground-crew staffer screws up). Arriving passengers will be forced into a path which takes them into Immigration and then baggage claim, and finally Customs.

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Originally Posted by matthogg (Post 36360285)

My friend is about to fly solo from London Heathrow (LHR) to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) - it's a direct flight. I have no worries about LHR as we have both navigated it together many times. However, neither of us has been to CVG. Does anyone know if it is a fairly easy airport to navigate? I'm an assuming it's pretty standard - get off the plane and follow signs for immigration to get passport checked then collect checked bag then go through customs?

I've changed planes at CVG more than once, though never on an international flight. It's a comparatively small airport, quite easy to get around in my experience. Immigration and customs are as you describe. Remember that Cincinnati/Ohio and northern Kentucky (where the airport is located) are in the U.S. Eastern time zone.