Terminal Meet and Greet in UNDER 17 Minutes! - LHR

I booked Tom for my trip from US to London back in May at T2. I used his service for both my arrival and departure. Tom is the consummate professional! He was on time and made the trip from LHR to my hotel a snap as well as the departure. Tom is pleasant and his knowledge of London history was a bonus for our trip in and out of London . Bosch as he would say!

Yep it came in super handy as I now know to never pick anyone up at Heathrow. Great video and certainly an eye opener.

Top tip if you need to wait a bit because you are at the airport early: You can park in the Long stay at Heathrow for Free up to 30 mins, and Gatwick free for up to 2 hours!

Tom is a man of the people. Always helping out somehow someway. Knowledge is power 🚖

Tom! You’ve missed such a basic trick here when it comes to the pickup. Yes you’re right the sign boards are useless, so easily counteract this by wearing a red hat. Nobody wears red hats, ive requested this for years and on occasions the drivers agree its such a big help when you land, especially if its a foreign country. Remember the hat!

I recently went on holiday. A bit of a multi country tour. USA, CANADA and NZ. And i will say. As a British citizen. The longest passport control for me to get through was British passport control.

Just what’s needed for a Saturday morning 😀

If they're landing at LHR, add another two hours of sitting on the apron waiting for a gate and another hour and half waiting in baggage reclaim. It's an absolute mess right now.

I always ask the customers to ring or text when they have gotten into the arrivals hall. Then drive in, pay for your parking straight away. It saves you doing it when you've collected your customer. Then its down the lift, meet, back up the lift, to the car and then out, sometimes I do it in less than 15 mins unless its terminal 3 which requires an extra lift and a bit of walking.

Thanks for this

I learned early on(2002)and if it was T1,2 or 3 and because for me it was a @5 hour return trip from my provincial Town, I would park at Reading Sevices,and have the customer message me the minute they had de-planed,giving us both,with luck around an hour to link up.Nine times out of ten this worked.

Ha! I do the satnav thing! These are all pretty obvious tips but really appreciate the “use the same lift route on both legs” one as that is an easy mistake to make!

Very interesting and fantastic video Sir

When I come to England I’m going to try to book you to pick me up from Heathrow 🙏 great video Tom!

Also check the winds especially if it is a long haul flight.

A 10 hour flight is rather short (at least from my perspective) :-) Another awesome TTTD video!!

Love the fact your in your bed with your jacket lol

Elevators? It’s the UK, we have lifts. Lol

flight radar is great but the arrival time is the time the wheels hit the ground, not the time the plane gets to stand / gate. With BA this can be anything from 10 mins to 30mins. in the old days club/first bags would hit the belt first nowadays its as they come. My last T5 flight took about 90 mins between wheels on the ground grabbing my bags and getting to Nero's. - there was something parked on its stand.

I use to pick my MD at work from Terminal 3 and Gatwick airports. So he liked my pick ups due to my sitting outside airport until the last minute. So used all those tricks. Just once at Gatwick they were diverted to Stansted due to a tyre blow out and waited 2 hours around the airport. Nearby Tesco's only has 2 hours and does not like private hire drivers hanging about. I bought something so was a customer. Lucky I was not in the car park. Another pick up at City Airport diverted to Southend due to fog. That one took an hour drive but was quick.