Heathrow/Gatwick
Jan 6, 2009, 11:16 am
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Heathrow/Gatwick
I am booked DUS-LHR, transfer to Gatwick-VRN and return in business class. How is the transfer at LHR handled? Cattle bus again?
Jan 6, 2009, 11:19 am
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There is a bus service between the airports, which should take around 90 minutes.
A quicker way would be to order a car, but that will be expensive.
Cheers,
Rick
Jan 6, 2009, 11:29 am
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One would imagine that there is some sort of Shuttle for Elite or Business/First passengers, run by BA - maybe I am too pampered by LH's HON treatments...
Jan 6, 2009, 11:31 am
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Jan 6, 2009, 1:48 pm
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Don't imagine this helps much, given if the OP wanted to use a LCC, they wouldn't be fiddling around with LON airports from DUS, but easJet fly CGN-LGW, and Ryanair have just started a new NRN-LGW route.
Can only assume a DUS-LON-VRN routing must be a TP run?
Can only assume a DUS-LON-VRN routing must be a TP run?
Jan 6, 2009, 2:54 pm
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Jan 6, 2009, 3:26 pm
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IIRC, when one of my GLA-LGW flights was cancelled last year and I was accommodated at the last minute on a LHR one, I was handed a voucher at the top of the disembarkation ramp in LHR T1, then had to do something at the central coach station before it would be accepted on the National Express coach (we live right near LGW, hence the need to get back there rather than HEX it into the Smoke).
Jan 6, 2009, 3:40 pm
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Jan 6, 2009, 3:47 pm
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Of course, T5 must have its own desk these days, so that may not be as hellish as it once was. Do the T5-LGW buses have to go via T4, or do they now just go straight out and join the queuing traffic on the M25?
Jan 6, 2009, 3:57 pm
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...I'd gladly stump up the extra £2 to avoid the anguish and buy from a machine.
Of course, T5 must have its own desk these days, so that may not be as hellish as it once was. Do the T5-LGW buses have to go via T4, or do they now just go straight out and join the queuing traffic on the M25?
Of course, T5 must have its own desk these days, so that may not be as hellish as it once was. Do the T5-LGW buses have to go via T4, or do they now just go straight out and join the queuing traffic on the M25?
There might be a sales kiosk at the bus stop, but it's not a transfer I've had to make, thank goodness.
Jan 6, 2009, 3:58 pm
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To be honest, as I generally arrive late morning / early afternoon the M25 has been kind to me recently. Now where's that wood....
Jan 6, 2009, 4:00 pm
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I must admit that I detest the speedlink coach.... having missed a flight (the only one I have ever missed) as we were stuck on the M25....
I now purchase a Southern only (trains) travel card for about £11.00 and travel LGW-Victoria (35mins)- Underground (45 mins)- LHR if I am only carrying hand baggage....
I now purchase a Southern only (trains) travel card for about £11.00 and travel LGW-Victoria (35mins)- Underground (45 mins)- LHR if I am only carrying hand baggage....
