might be interesting today, geting to LHR by train and then flying north. Trains to London seem OK so far, but Heathrow Express is a reduced service
Seems OK at the mo. I’m on my third attempt to go transatlantic
Yesterday I discovered that exiting an airport when you haven’t actual flown in from anywhere is not at all straightforward.
This has happened to me a several times in Canada where US immigration is at the airport in Canada (so flights to the US can go via domestic terminals). So you essentially enter the US without leaving Canada.
Then your flight gets cancelled, leaving you essentially to re-enter Canada from the US. And then, the following day, re-enter the US without leaving Canada.
Given bad weather and flight cancellations in that part of the world are hardly a surprise, you might assume they'd be used to this outcome, but they were not and indeed seemed to be deliberately obtuse. I think on nearly every single occasion they were dicks.
Sir, we already have you having entered the US... I'd patiently explain the obvious scenario that led to me being back in Canada (on one occasion, all the flights had been cancelled and the airport closed, the airport they worked at) and then they'd make up something about how I was supposed to have done something to somehow inform them of this and then they'd make a big palaver about how they were going to bend the rule to let me back into the country I lived in. I'd like to say the Canadians were a lot better, but they weren't. Conclusive proof, if it were needed, that putting unsuitable people in uniforms and giving them power over other people generally turns them into petty nazis.