JAL to move into T5?
Jul 29, 2010, 8:07 am
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JAL to move into T5?
BA are exmaining whether it makes sense to allow JAL to move into T5. (Announcement on the BA intranet) Suprising as I would have thought BA would have liked them to move into T3, rather than T5.
Talks at the very early stages.
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Talks at the very early stages.
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Jul 29, 2010, 8:09 am
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Jul 29, 2010, 8:10 am
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I guess it wouldn't add too many flights to the daily schedule, and to share the costs on the sparkly new terminal must be attractive. Personally, I was wondering whether the longer term plan (once the C gates come online) might not be to get as much OW traffic through T5 as possible. In terms of synergies & costs, it would make sense (though I don't know whether the full eventual T5 capacity could manage ALL OW flights).
Jul 29, 2010, 8:19 am
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Makes perfect sense given that BA operate their daily LHR-NRT from T5 plus the plan for greater codesharing between both, particularly JL codes being placed on more BA short-haul European flights.
Whilst I understand the consolidation of the OW carriers at T3, I'm still a little surprised that when QF moved from T4 that they didn't move to T5 with BA.
Whilst I understand the consolidation of the OW carriers at T3, I'm still a little surprised that when QF moved from T4 that they didn't move to T5 with BA.
Jul 29, 2010, 8:58 am
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I would've thought BA would want to keep this terminal to itself. What makes JAL special as opposed to moving all BA/IB Spanish flights to T5 or the already mentioned QF joint ventures?
Jul 29, 2010, 9:08 am
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I had the impression that T5 was intended to stay purely BA, but with the deepening of co-operation between the OW alliance members, it probably makes operational sense to open up T5 to the other carriers where they can be accommodated.
Jul 29, 2010, 9:08 am
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Maybe we can look forward to a Japanese touch in the lounges. Sushi, Sake and the Japanse beer that I can't remember the name of.
Also, those strange automatic tap beer dispenser
Also, those strange automatic tap beer dispenser
Jul 29, 2010, 9:20 am
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Jul 29, 2010, 9:21 am
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Jul 29, 2010, 9:27 am
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If JAL joins BA at T5, then it saves JL the lounge facility fees (yay=P) and it helps BA connects with JAL flights. I mean, currently JL lands in LHR late in the afternoon already, if connecting on BA in T5, the pax has to rush his way through the bus, transfer, then security, limiting the number of flights they can connect on. Since JL had been increasing its codeshare network with BA and with airlines in Europe, moving JL to T5 would help BA with the flight connections, and similarly allows BA to put pax on JL flights through JAL network.
Jul 29, 2010, 9:37 am
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This is interesting, the first hint I've seen that I recall that T5 wouldn't just be BA flights. Wonder what it might mean for swaps and moves in general as AA/IB come in closer too.
Wasn't there a plan mooted at some point to extend the T5 train to T3 too? Or was that some baggage system only?