Do you find yourself bumping into people in airports?

Posted by nick9000@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 15 comments

Apparently it's a problem at Heathrow, [Brits walking on the left and foreign travellers walking on the right](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/heathrow-overcrowded-travellers-walking-on-wrong-side-left-right).

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fisico002@reddit

Esp people with skis and golf clubs grrr

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pimpledsimpleton@reddit

no but i randomly saw my next door neighbours at the gate last month

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jackyLAD@reddit

I thought this was about randomly bumping into people you know at airports without knowing about each other being there.... which yes, I bizarrely do - at least 3 times outside of Europe too, genuinely gets me each time. The probability of it seemed near impossible to me... now I travel to Wellington or whatever fearing it's gonna happen *again* every time. (Yes I don't overly like the casual bump into each other catch up thing)

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PepsiMaxSumo@reddit

I walked into a bar in Madrid the other year, sat down and sat next to me was a girl I knew from Sheffield of all the odds

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Thin_Pin2863@reddit

Having gone through Heathrow recently, this really isn't a problem at all. As such, people saying it is may find that it's their own doing.

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badgersruse@reddit

But Brits don’t walk ‘generally’ on the left. Unless Heathrow is different than everywhere else.

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Rethink_society@reddit

It's left walking up the stairs and right walking down

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badgersruse@reddit

Well obviously, except of course when the wind is blowing from the north, unless the day has a ‘t’ in it.

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Suitable-Tough5877@reddit

No, generally everyone is walking in the same direction.

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dbxp@reddit

No, I have eyes

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ClacksInTheSky@reddit

Yeah, I make a conscious effort not to walk into people, using my eyes.

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SirGranular@reddit

They are probably all looking at their phones! Seems to be a thing we as a species are suffer from these days.

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Mr_Bumcrest@reddit

I've been to two airports in the last 10 years so not much of an issue

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HenshinDictionary@reddit

God gave me eyes, and I find it's helpful to use them.

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