Having been through the stresses at Heathrow Airport on numerous occasions, I totally agree with your comments. Whilst holidaymakers endure the pain and then push it out of their mind quickly, business travellers have to face that nightmare over and over on business trips.

I see on some travel forums that international business executives are already finding alternative routes to get to their U.K. business meeting and avoiding Heathrow. We ourselves now choose to fly to Amsterdam, then on to Leeds-Bradford (LBA) rather than going through LHR. I wouldn’t say that the experience at LBA is fantastic, but at least the problem is on a much smaller scale.

The problem is that Heathrow gets so much traffic that it will take a long time before avoidance by international passengers makes any real dent. Still, we live in hope.

Two years back, when I passed through the airport, I had a small
brief case, besides the one cabin bag. The officer was so adamant
and finally I took all the items from the brief case and stocked in
the carry on case. When I asked, where I can dispose the brief case,
he told me to exit the airport and re-enter through the customs. How I can catch the next flight? When I asked him to dispose the brief case, he showed no courtesy, but another police officer asked my
nationality, and since I was a U.S. citizen, he showed the courtesy
to take the brief case from me. Several passengers with their small
children had to undergo hardship that day. Laws are made for
us to abide with, but we are not made for experimenting laws with us.