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Brett Gibbons & Sophie Collins

Airport boss slams 'travel hack' as man tells others to request wheelchair assistance to beat queue

An airport boss has slammed a recent social media hack doing the rounds that details a devious way some passengers are beating the queues.

The chief of the UK's largest airport revealed that people are pretending they need special wheelchair assistance in order to speed through the Heathrow terminals.

The TikTok post, which has since gone viral, featured a holidaymaker faking a foot injury in order to be fast-tracked through the airport and John Holland-Kaye of Heathrow Airport, told LBC that some passengers are "using wheelchair support to get through the airport faster.”

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