LHR Shame on you!
 

LHR, shame on you, an absolute sh*thole of an airport. A carousel numbered 0???
UK passport arrivals (chip) check, rubbish, slow, clumsy system, poor foreign arrivals 3 hours delay at immigration, yuk!
Who ever "runs" the place could do with a slight beheading!:ugh:

Not a patch on BHX, that's for sure?? ;)

But, I concur...LHR is shocker, these days. !

It's the UK Border Agency that are continually dropping the ball on this. For once I find myself defending BAA!

UK Border Agency | Home Page
Write to them, it might be slightly more helpful but I know how you feel.

Frighteningly enough, if one googles the UK Border Agency, the Number One link at the top is not the organisition itself but :

"Immigration in the UK | migrantsrights.org.uk
Migrants' Rights Network (MRN) | Working for the rights of all migrants
Latest information on immigration from the leading charity"

There's the reason why they're struggling methinks.

Yes Belt 0 at T4...

What's wrong with a belt 0? If you want to have another belt, to the left of belt 1, this would seem to be logical.

Agree with the rest, though.

I will stick up for LHR, as a regular through T5 I have never had any problems. You should try LGA or JFK, bloody hopeless!

What if they need a few more? Belt "00" "000" ; or "Belt -1"

For the defenders of LHR, belt 0 in fact is belt 00. So when you pour into that horrible 'work in progress', disgusting, smelly carousel hall, you come to a screen that tells you which flight, which carousel.
BUT all the belts are numbered 01 02 03 etc, so as you are a mile away from belt 01 at that point, you are awaiting for a sensible number for your flight to appear.
As it happens it was showing belt 00, as if we are about to get a NUMBER on the screen.
Only after some 5 minutes I thought perhaps these idiots are stupid enough to have numbered a belt 00???
So then some 300 + people woke up like us and started migrating to the far end only to discover that a bloody belt has actually been numbered 0 (Not 00, but who cares).
Just think, next year it's OLYMPIC turmoil year, with lots of foreign passports, give me strength.
They are a bunch of useless idiots and that's that. I have seen trees more intelligent then this lot!:=

So you can't understand there's a belt 00 and that's BAAs fault? Never assume.

On Saturday, I saw my sister out through T3, her last trip was T5. She said after the journey: "I said some bad things about T5 - but that was before I came back to dear old T3 ..." In other words, nothing good to say about EITHER T3 or 5! :hmm:

That's it, defend at all costs. How dare anyone criticise Heathrow. Belt numbering 00 obviously far too logical for common airport users.

Yellow Pen, you are one of them, I can smell it :-((

I've been through T3 a few times, never any other terminal though.

Been to and from LHR using both Underground and coaches. Travelling both with check-in luggage and without.

Yes it's bloody big, it can be crowded. But I don't think it's that horrible really.

Immigration lines haven't been too bad, around 10 minutes average for me I'd guess, which is not to bad.

Security has always been fine.

The only downside is the lack of seating out of the main area (I prefer to sit by the window and look at planes to shopping), but sometimes you can find an empty gateroom and stay there for a while and that usually works fine.

There are plenty of signs and info screens and as long as you can read and follow arrows finding your way is quite easy (according to me anyway).


Sure it's big, and sure it's crowded, but that bad, no I don't think so. To be honest I think it works quite fine.

CV, they have announced to the waiting crowds at Arrivals on the PA last night that foreign passport holders are expected to stand in line for over 3 hours.
When it works it works, when it doesn't, that is when people like me start writing about it.
I flew (last as B737 capt.) for 22 years until last month, I know how the system works and when it is badly managed.
No one should be queuing up for 3 hours, just to get through to a sour faced %&$£.
As I said, I was the lucky one, but T4 is rubbish and that's that!:{

moist

All of LHR is disgusting. BAA is Bloody Awful Airports. Public floggings and executions of BAA and Border Agency managers would be a good start - pour encourager les autres.

There was a time when I didn't have too much choice. Now I do. Haven't used Heathrow for more than 10 years. I try and avoid the place at all costs.

I don't know if you guys normally fly private jet or something, but I've found LHR quite a fast, easy and comfortable airport to get around. And it shouldn't be rocket science to find where the 00 belt is.

But, you know, I clearly have a vested interest in defending LHR at all costs.

I've only been through LHR 35 times so far this year. It will be 36 after tomorrow. Such idiocies as no towels in toilets, only hot air hand driers. For example, does it never occur to these idiots that people coming off a long flight might want to wash their faces? The annoyance in T5 of having to do a route march to get to lounges because they insist on having you pass over priced shops that you have no intention of buying anything from. The frequency with which lifts, escalators and moving walkways break down for several days, and the T5 lifts where only one out of the three is working at any one time. And of course, don't mention last winter's appalling lack of snow clearing...

All really down to the greed of a poor management

Come on people, on a recent arrival into JFK we waited over an hour for immigration and that was at the US passport holders. Then on trying to find our baggage it was on two different carousels! Never had any problems like that at LHR!