Heathrow: ministers must ‘get a grip’ of customs before 17 May
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5H7GM)
Airport warns of bottleneck for UK economic recovery as Border Force struggles' to process passengers
Heathrow has urged the government to get a grip" of immigration and customs control and simplify the measures needed for international arrivals to restart mass travel from 17 May, after reporting another quarter of huge losses.
Despite a 90% drop in passengers in the first three months of 2021 to just 1.4 million people, the airport's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, said there was huge pent-up demand for travel - but a prime concern" was how arrivals would be processed at the airport.
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