Fast track through immigration?

[Mal]

My understanding is any fast track immigration from Australia and into the UK is based on class of travel (except if you're on an EU/EEA passport into the UK, you can't use the fast track, why not is beyond me), but whether EY offers that I don't know.

If a frequent visitor to the UK, get signed up to IRIS. I did - and it means effortless travel from aircraft to baggage belt. The reasoning for no Fast Track line inbound at LHR if a UK/EU passport is because of the belief is that passport processing for those passports is generally quick vs non-EU ones. That has changed a lot in recent years though!

there appears to be immigration checks out of T3 these days, (it was there when I flew out in oct, but my family flew out the day before and they didn't have any immigration checks, so I don't know if this was a one-off or is permanent), but there was no fast track queue. If this is permanent, then I find it a bit odd, as there wasn't any out of T5 when I went out in december.You can use the fast track security though.

I have had my passport checked once out of two trips through T3 in the last few months. I believe it is random and based on where flights are going to. Border Security staff also stand at the gate for some ex-LHR flights and check random passports as well (I saw this heading to IST recently in T5).

I'm heading back to T3 on Wed, so will have a better look at how it's set up now. Certainly looking forward to visiting T3 Galleries F.

 

[NM]

Good parents ≠ well behaved kids. Just saying.

Ne're a truer word was said. However, good parents (and their kids) will not remain in the lounge when kids are not well behaved .

While my children are children and will make their own choices about behaviour, they know that a visit to an airline lounge is a privilege and if their behaviour is not appropriate, their visit will be very short lived. Children as young as 4 or 5 can understand this concept. Behaviour of children under that age is able to be influenced by other means (potentially also involving parental self-removal from the environment). Either way, I do not believe lounge guests should have to suffer poorly behaved children. And I have taken my children into many lounges on many occasions, and while I know their behaviour is not always ideal, I believe that when in airline lounges nobody could complain about the way they conduct themselves. (And some members here have met my kids in Qantas Club lounges and I am confident they would reinforce my comments).