Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
On a related topic, I just flew to Dubai and back on BA and was amazed at how quick the check in, security and passport checks are nowadays especially with the eGates. All four sides I went from check in through immigration and security in about 10 min.

Only downside was the baggage delay at Heathrow on the way home. C*nts.
Delhi's old airport took hours but the new one is well quick. But when I went to Costa Rica about 8 years ago, I had a 4 hour stop-over in Miami. Took 2 hours to get through immigration and then had to get my bag and carry it {cos it wanted money for the trolley} and deal with security.

It was only because the nice Yank let me skip the X-ray queue after a while that I made my flight. I told him that at all other airports, your bags just stay with the airline, that I'd been sold a ticket by AA with 4 hours between flights and that I was probably gonna miss my connection given how big this x-ray queue was. When he found I was a Brit and was simply trying to get from London to Costa Rica, he said I could leave the queue and just go through.

Lovely chap, as I say. I'd have been stuck in Miami for a day and had to deal with changing my flight etc.

Will never fly into or via the US again.