On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:42:57 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
"Sjoerd" wrote:

You claimed that US customs ( I believe you mean immigration) is faster than
"99% of the countries in the world". I have been to 75 countries and the US
is amongst the 10 countries with the longest/slowest lines for immigration
and customs.

Is this because the process for each person is long, or because of the
relative number of people coming in at a time?

When you're flying in on a hundred-seat airliner and there's four guys
working the desk, you're going to get through faster than if you're on
one of four 747-400s landing in the same hour...

Yet There are many airports in the world who handle considerably more
international arrivals than US airports, even the busiest US airport
doesn't approach Heathrow for example.

Jim.