Reply To: Flight missed due to immigration queues – any advice?

[Olly]

You have my sympathy @HACE79 – the same thing very nearly happened to us yesterday at AMS.
We were re-booked via there on a flight back from Dubai as our original flight was cancelled. The booking was with Emirates and BA (no interlining) which meant we had to clear immigration, collect and re-check the bags and then go back through passport control. The first 3 stages had no delays, but it then took over 45 mins to get through the border. Which meant we had to sprint with the kids across the massive terminal and made it with 22 mins left to the STD. Talk about skin of the teeth.