Feel your pain, I love to visit the U.K., We have a Nonstop UA flight from Den-LHR, which has great cnx out of lhr to Scandinavia, Germany, etc.. which is fine for Going to Europe, Fees,&Taxes are VERY reasonable. However on returns we try go through ANY other EU city UA serves to avoid the HUGE HIT (at least to me =) ) in LHR dept fees and taxes. Pity, used to stopover in London on returns from EU back to US, to visit Friends, shop etc but now only do this enroute. There are much less expensive options out of other Cities in E.U. , That being said, Heathrow can Still be a good dept to US for Non-Revs as there are many choices of flights out of there. The fee has actually reduced the competition for Non rev seats. (slightly)