{"id":27936,"date":"2026-07-08T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:10:47","slug":"is-ihg-fast-track-a-thing-at-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2026\/07\/08\/is-ihg-fast-track-a-thing-at-heathrow-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Is IHG Fast Track a thing at Heathrow Airport?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is something that&#8217;s puzzled me for a while. Since sometime last year (or perhaps the year before), IHG has been sponsoring parts of Heathrow Airport. If you&#8217;ve used the Fast Track security lanes, you&#8217;ve probably noticed the IHG advertisements displayed throughout the entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/heathrow-ihg-fast-track.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/heathrow-ihg-fast-track.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27935\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/heathrow-ihg-fast-track.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/heathrow-ihg-fast-track-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/heathrow-ihg-fast-track-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as I can tell, though, the sponsorship appears to be purely promotional. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any officially published benefit attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, I&#8217;ve now had reports from <strong>at least two readers<\/strong> claiming that they were allowed to use the Fast Track security lane simply by showing their IHG One Rewards membership card in the mobile app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, I&#8217;m still a little sceptical that this is an official policy. If IHG really had a Fast Track benefit at Heathrow, you&#8217;d expect to find at least some mention of it online. The fact that there&#8217;s virtually no information anywhere makes me wonder whether it&#8217;s simply down to individual staff discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way, it&#8217;s worth keeping in mind &#8211; If you&#8217;re flying out of Heathrow in the future and don&#8217;t already have Fast Track access through your cabin class or airline status, it certainly doesn&#8217;t hurt to give it a try. During the busiest periods, it could save you quite a bit of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something that&#8217;s puzzled me for a while. Since sometime last year (or perhaps the year before), IHG has been sponsoring parts of Heathrow Airport.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihg","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27939,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions\/27939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}