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Originally Posted by BA Loyal
Similar happened to me - we were waiting for 25 mins just short of the gate. A shambles.
I came into T5 just over a week ago from YVR. The gate was set up for double bridges, but we ended up connected door 1 to the bridge furthest away from the building (which, now I think about it, was how it was on the outbound). The upside was no waiting at the gate.
What's the point of having dual bridges if they are not going to be used? Or is this a shortcut solution to the guidance not being available?
And BTW, BA, exiting through door 1 is completely crap for your UD Club pax.
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True, but since the baggage at T5 does not arrive on the belts before the pax get to the reclaim haul, for those F pax with hold luggage, it's simply a longer wait at the carousel...
True, but since the baggage at T5 does not arrive on the belts before the pax get to the reclaim haul, for those F pax with hold luggage, it's simply a longer wait at the carousel...
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Originally Posted by Greg66
And BTW, BA, exiting through door 1 is completely crap for your UD Club pax.
I am usually on the UD but I hardly feel I can complain that some of the LD club pax get off before me. After all, they've had a much more miserable journey than I have and are probably desperate to leave.
If you really need to exit quickly becaue of a tight connection, for example, just tell the cabin crew and they'll seat you at the front (i.e. front part of CW section) for landing, unless it is totally full. I've done this precisely once and was the first off the plane as a result. I would never ask if I didn't have a special reason for wanting to be off quickly.
If this is a complaint about the W pax exiting first on a mid-J plane, that's not really a door 1 issue specifically. Of course the correct thing to do is to use both doors and pen them in until the J pas have left, but how often does this actually happen?
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Originally Posted by Greg66
True, but since the baggage at T5 does not arrive on the belts before the pax get to the reclaim haul, for those F pax with hold luggage, it's simply a longer wait at the carousel...
I think this is going to remain the single biggest problem at T5, for a while at least...
Security is very frustrating, but the queues appear to be relatively short. I can't help thinking that there is just not enough space in the space behind the zig-zag queues to allow proper distribution of passengers to different queueus through the security area.
And BTW, BA, exiting through door 1 is completely crap for your UD Club pax.
I was second in line off the BA flight* at (non-US) Immigration yesterday from the UD, on a 70J plane, with the crew holding back CW for F to get off first through 1L () with no hassle.
* I know this for a fact since our nice early arrival caught the tail end of the AA flight and they had staff trawling the line to find out where their pax ended and BA's began.
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Originally Posted by G-BOAC
I was second in line off the BA flight* at (non-US) Immigration yesterday from the UD, on a 70J plane, with the crew holding back CW for F to get off first through 1L () with no hassle.
* I know this for a fact since our nice early arrival caught the tail end of the AA flight and they had staff trawling the line to find out where their pax ended and BA's began.
Surely you can only have achieved that by running - or at least walking so very fast that you were tettering on the edge of trotting - from the door of the plane to Immigration.
Isn't the point that one should be able to dawdle from the plane door and yet still not have to queue?
Surely you can only have achieved that by running - or at least walking so very fast that you were tettering on the edge of trotting - from the door of the plane to Immigration.
I am built for comfort not speed No running! Purposeful walking and not hanging around faffing to get stuff out of lockers, etc. helps - I use the last few minutes before 'belts on at 20' to ensure I've packed up everything and am good to go as soon as the belt light is out. Other people seem to wait until that point to collect belongings, check around them, etc. Then when you're out the door, people wander around aimlessly and slowly probably fearful they'll get lost or take a wrong turn or something - it's a secure area, there is no wrong turn to make, you can only go the way they herd you. Head down and get on with it, I say
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Originally Posted by G-BOAC
Head down and get on with it, I say
Seconded. On many occasions LHR-JFK, starting from the UD, I've been packed up and ready to go. Land, park, seatbelt sign off, up, grab bags, down stairs, wait near the door (and smile at the cabin crew so they won't hold me back to let the F pax off, the first of whom I wouldn't be obstructing anyway as I'd be out before they got anywhere near the door), among the first off the plane, walk quickly down the jetway and first in line at immigration, which at JFK often means first in the immigration hall and no waiting at all.
I was second in line off the BA flight* at (non-US) Immigration yesterday from the UD, on a 70J plane, with the crew holding back CW for F to get off first through 1L (
