T3 international -> T5 domestic connection question
Nov 17, 2014, 9:13 am
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Nov 17, 2014, 11:31 am
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Right, I have done it in publisher. I still need to adjust a few things, and I may add a few notes in the top left hand corner. Any obvious mistakes or changes that need to be made? I am not sure if it is a bit too cluttered now and therefore less clear.
Nov 17, 2014, 2:11 pm
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Wow thanks for this KARFA it's really useful! Got my first T5 connection coming up as part of an EX-EU CPH-LHR-BOS in F and looking for the easiest way to the CCR. Would you recommend exiting and going back through departures if the queues look lengthy at flight connections? I presume it doesn't affect conformance if I exit the border? Don't want to be offloaded because I've not been scanned through flight connections or anything.
Nov 17, 2014, 2:18 pm
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Yes I would suggest going out via the UK border if you have an EEA biometric passport and the queues at Flight Connections look bad. Midweek from early afternoon onwards it shouldn't be too bad however. Going landside does affect conformance - you need to get to the entrance of South Security (there would be little point going to North Security) by 35 minutes before departure, so if you have less than about 50 minutes before your flight you best go via Flight Connections.
Nov 17, 2014, 2:27 pm
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You are very talented, KARFA. So green CS means Customer Service. The one thing that all good FTers will be using, if coming off T5B or T5C, is the lifts, rather than the escalators, this is located in the top left corner of the grey box below the e-passport gates (so actually not so well located for Flight Connections, but well located for the UK Border).
Also I'd probably put the INT-INT main boarding pass check upwards in line with the FT boarding pass check and along that whole block, which is physically the case, since it also shows there can be queues both sides of that check. That would be rare on Fast Track.
Also I'd probably put the INT-INT main boarding pass check upwards in line with the FT boarding pass check and along that whole block, which is physically the case, since it also shows there can be queues both sides of that check. That would be rare on Fast Track.
Nov 17, 2014, 2:51 pm
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So green CS means Customer Service. The one thing that all good FTers will be using, if coming off T5B or T5C, is the lifts, rather than the escalators, this is located in the top left corner of the grey box below the e-passport gates (so actually not so well located for Flight Connections, but well located for the UK Border).
Also I'd probably put the INT-INT main boarding pass check upwards in line with the FT boarding pass check and along that whole block, which is physically the case, since it also shows there can be queues both sides of that check. That would be rare on Fast Track.
Also I'd probably put the INT-INT main boarding pass check upwards in line with the FT boarding pass check and along that whole block, which is physically the case, since it also shows there can be queues both sides of that check. That would be rare on Fast Track.
No problem, but for god's sake don't ask anymore questions! I think I will have to do some real work instead tomorrow rather than doing connection guides
Nov 17, 2014, 3:04 pm
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Are you sure that you need to show boarding pass at the T3 transfer security. I remember that once my T5-ARN-HEL was cancelled because of a snow storm. I was rerouted to a direct AY T3-HEL flight and was told to pick up a new boarding pass at the AY transfer desk. I was even allowed to visit the the lounge with the T5 boarding pass because the AY desk was not open at the time I came through security. I have done this connection also at other times and have no memory of showing the boarding pass at the security. Of course you have to show do that if you land-side.
Nov 17, 2014, 3:10 pm
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Nov 18, 2014, 9:28 am
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I have had a go at version 4 now and incorporated the changes noted by cws as well as a few other minor amendments. Hopefully we are there now or very close.
Last edited by KARFA; Nov 18, 2014 at 9:33 am
Nov 18, 2014, 9:49 am
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Fast Track was for status/premium cabin passengers, which is now closed for INT-DOM.
Express Connections is for those on short connections.
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...hancement.html
Express Connections is for those on short connections.
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...hancement.html
Nov 18, 2014, 10:02 am
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Fast Track was for status/premium cabin passengers, which is now closed for INT-DOM.
Express Connections is for those on short connections.
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...hancement.html
Express Connections is for those on short connections.
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...hancement.html
Thanks Gomac. Once this is finalised I might add some notes and get it up in to a T5A connections thread a bit like the ones cws has done for T5B & T5C connections.
EDIT: just to add that express connections is accessed by getting hold of an orange voucher which is handed out by the purple oneworld agents which you will see wandering around. You can see what they look like in this post.