"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On 2014-09-06 12:18:25 +0000, Mizter T said:

Blimey, you've changed your tune pretty radically! Not so long ago you
seemed to consider Heathrow as one of the gates of hell.

That's because Heathrow has itself changed massively. First T5 (which had
a very bad false start but now seems to be working nicely) and then the
new T2 replacement. It is still overloaded which causes runway/taxiway
delays, but it's nothing like it was 10 years ago.

IME LHR has replaced one problem with another

There are no longer queues an hour long to get through security to check in

Instead they have replaced this with a 2 mile long walk from your arrival
stand to immigration where there's an hour long queue to get your passport
checked (though the latter's also a problem the last time I was at STN)

tim