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Flying from London to Los Angeles, if the plane touches down at JFK,
one has to go thru everything in New York, Immigration, baggage
pickup, customs check, and agricultural check.

That depends.

BA certainly used to have "set-down only" stops. So the flight from
London to Pittsburgh (IIRC) had a set-down stop at Washington Dulles.
Those passengers to Pittsburgh just stayed on the plane while those to
Washington got off, after which the plane continued on its journey.

I had an "interesting" experience when Dulles was fogged in. Normally
about 90% of the passengers got off in Washington. Pittsburgh had one
short set of rollers (not even a belt) for the luggage and two
immigration officers. For a full 747.

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