Which door A340 LHR – JFK
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at 22:25 by RussellCruickshank.
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ForeignescapeParticipantTraveling to JFK on Virgin, Upper Class. From which door will I be able to make the fastest escape to immigration? Best to sit closer to row 1 or the bar?
8 Nov 2011
at 22:48
wtravelairParticipantI flew to JFK in Upper Class last week and the ground staff opened the first left door so best to sit 1D or 2A.
9 Nov 2011
at 01:52
BullfrogParticipant‘Fastest escape to immigration’ .. IMHO .. the VS J cabin is far more comfortable than BA CW, so I don’t understand the rush to get away.
Even if you’re in the front row by door 1 or the last row of the front cabin by door 2, the main slow down at immigration will be the passengers arriving on other flights.
If you’ve got a quick pace, I reckon you don’t need to be the first passenger from a Business Class cabin of an arriving flight to be the first of that flight at immigration.
9 Nov 2011
at 11:38
TominScotlandParticipantSo you may save 3 minutes in the queue after a 7 hour flight – is that so important? Forget about the mad rush to immigration – the answer is to get a US passport…….
9 Nov 2011
at 11:44
BullfrogParticipantIf the US passport is unobtainable, the answer is BA from London City & do the Shannon Shuffle.
Apart from a disappointing 13.00 as the earliest departure, the seat, service, food & customs clearance are all far superior to BA’s Club World service ex LHR.
9 Nov 2011
at 13:02
ForeignescapeParticipantThe 3 minutes count, I am missing thanksgiving dinner with my wifes family (a blessing for some). The potential 30 people in front of me, depending on my seat selection, with 2 counters open for international passports is a situation where every minute counts.
US passport would be nice, but i dont fancy the life long taxation, would rather make the application for my APEC card.
BA v VS…BA every day but flight times with my connection from Asia make this the fastest option.
Appreciate all the comments.
9 Nov 2011
at 22:16
Tete_de_cuveeParticipantOther things being equal, in multiple immigration queue situations, choose the one closest to the crew line.
One can occasionally get lucky if the underused (crew) agent is feeling generous/helpful and calls across passengers from the (your) nearby passenger queue whilst waiting for the next incoming crew.
9 Nov 2011
at 23:19
RichHI1ParticipantGiven up on this subterfuge, partially as Miami seems to be the only one left with mutiple lines and secondly when I did this at Miami they used the line next to crew for all the wheelchair passengers. There are a lot of wheelchair passengers who fly into Miami from Latin America… was there hours… My strategy is to look for airports where airliens do not share immigration and choose flight times that do not have other flights with close timings (JFK for both BA and AA is good for this Virgin not so much, MIA, DFW and ORD horrible but for LAX AA has proven the fastst of the lot unlike BA into TBIT which is appaling. What is Virgin like at LAX? Worst ever was Delta at JFK when I arrived from MExico City and An Air France .from CDG, a KLM from AMS and another European heavy and a Korean flight had all arrived within previous 10 minutes, 3 hours in immigration…
10 Nov 2011
at 08:49
ForeignescapeParticipantThe verdict…seat position did matter. Sat towards the back of upper class, first off the plane. 2 counters open and a KLM flight landing the same time. Friend on the flight was sitting in 2a, got through security 70 minutes after me.
25 Nov 2011
at 15:38
RussellCruickshankParticipantOr get the nexus card which allows you to use the kiosk and bypass the officers all together.
5 Dec 2011
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