Border Lines at London’s Heathrow Airport Reach 2.5 Hours

The UK border force met its target just once last month

UK Border control in Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London June 4, 2014. /Neil Hall/Reuters/File Photo

Wait times in passport control lines at London’s Heathrow Airport reached 2 1/2 hours in July, official figures show.

The Border Force missed the 45-minute wait target for 95 percent of visitors from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), on all but one day last month.