Re: [101attendees] Heathrow Departure

In my last flight to the States a few months ago, I, and at least a couple of dozen other passengers, were selected for extra security checks, which included a full search of hand luggage, and an explosive check against shoes.  It looked like the vast majority of passengers boarded as usual, unaware of the checks, but the process took some 20 minutes, hence presumably the requirement to arrive in good time.  Maybe they're checking more passengers now.

Tim 

> On 21 Mar 2018, at 13:06, Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> Just one data point: I’m taking a direct flight back to LA, didn’t see additional security check after the first one, ended up getting to the gate a bit too early (yes too early is way better than too late)
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> Lixia (from my  iPhone)
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>> On Mar 21, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> wrote:
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>>> On 21 Mar 2018, at 07:08, Sumandra Majee <smajee@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> I am assuming 2 hrs headroom is plenty for international departure from Heathrow to US. However I recall hearing something in the contrary, anybody with personal experience?
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>> Two hours should be fine. Though if anything goes wrong -- bad weather, equipment failure, etc -- queues at Heathrow will get very large very quickly because everything's working at near peak capacity all of the time. Check-in online if you can (always a good idea) as that's one less queue to worry about. As I said earlier, you *have* to be in the queue for security theatre at least 45 minutes or so before departure. The automated gates in front of the goons and xray machines won't let you go airside if you arrive "too late" for your flight.
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>> As always, check with your airline. They may have their own rules or change them just for your flight.
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