In message , at 10:33:29 on Fri, 19 Mar
2010, tim.... remarked:
With hand baggage only, it's likely to be dominated by the walks (gate to
immigration, and terminal to station).

You must be lucky at EMA.

They seem to manage to clear one plane's pax before another arrives, so
the wait is how far back in the plane (or bus) you were)

At any of the London Airports IME it is now very rare to queue for less than
20 minutes at immigration, though they are introducing machines which let
you avoid this queue if you have a "chip"" passport.

Time of day is crucial. I came through Stansted late on Monday and there
were 4 people in the queue ahead of me (it's multi-server, multi-queue;
as opposed to Birmingham, Luton and EMA which are single-queue,
multi-server).

Similarly, arriving back late at Gatwick North there's not a queue.
Colleagues flew via LHR on Monday (we had caught different but similarly
timed flights) and they arrived in Central London from LHR at exactly
the same time I got there from Stansted (35 mins on Stansted Express,
plus about 20 minutes on Circle Line). So their queue at LHR can't have
been significant.
--
Roland Perry