Europe-to-US Connections at LHR Now in T5?
May 11, 2017, 12:35 pm
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Europe-to-US Connections at LHR Now in T5?
Folks -- I'm traveling to Munich next week and just got the itinerary from my travel office. The U.S. contract carrier is AA, which means a BA codeshare through LHR. As a lot of us know, the hassle of connecting between Terminals 3 & 5 (especially the return trip connecting the other way) is a gigantic royal pain (pun intended).
My itinerary showed that both of my flights coming & going arrive and depart from Terminal 5. If this is accurate, how do they make you clear U.S.- style security (or do they)? Or, is my travel office being their usual clueless selves?
I'll find out for myself on Monday morning, but if anyone has any intel, I would be grateful.
My itinerary showed that both of my flights coming & going arrive and depart from Terminal 5. If this is accurate, how do they make you clear U.S.- style security (or do they)? Or, is my travel office being their usual clueless selves?
I'll find out for myself on Monday morning, but if anyone has any intel, I would be grateful.
May 11, 2017, 1:20 pm
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If you're flying both flights on BA metal (and not to/from those locations which depart/arrive at T3), then you can easily both arrive and depart at T5. There's no particular US-style security at LHR, at least not in the sense of specifically for US-bound flights (i.e. the security is the same for all flights irrespective of destination). I've done AMS-LHR-BOS all at T5, with nothing different from the DXB-LHR-AMS I had done to get to AMS, or the JFK-LHR-DXB I had done before that to get to DXB.
May 11, 2017, 1:47 pm
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If you're flying both flights on BA metal (and not to/from those locations which depart/arrive at T3), then you can easily both arrive and depart at T5. There's no particular US-style security at LHR, at least not in the sense of specifically for US-bound flights (i.e. the security is the same for all flights irrespective of destination). I've done AMS-LHR-BOS all at T5, with nothing different from the DXB-LHR-AMS I had done to get to AMS, or the JFK-LHR-DXB I had done before that to get to DXB.
May 11, 2017, 1:54 pm
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Folks -- I'm traveling to Munich next week and just got the itinerary from my travel office. The U.S. contract carrier is AA, which means a BA codeshare through LHR. As a lot of us know, the hassle of connecting between Terminals 3 & 5 (especially the return trip connecting the other way) is a gigantic royal pain (pun intended).
My itinerary showed that both of my flights coming & going arrive and depart from Terminal 5. If this is accurate, how do they make you clear U.S.- style security (or do they)? Or, is my travel office being their usual clueless selves?
I'll find out for myself on Monday morning, but if anyone has any intel, I would be grateful.
My itinerary showed that both of my flights coming & going arrive and depart from Terminal 5. If this is accurate, how do they make you clear U.S.- style security (or do they)? Or, is my travel office being their usual clueless selves?
I'll find out for myself on Monday morning, but if anyone has any intel, I would be grateful.
May 11, 2017, 7:59 pm
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After getting off the plane at T5, you have to go via the route for T5 flight connections; you are then made to clear a boarding pass conformance check at T5; and then you proceed upstairs and have to re-clear security and deal with some of the most extreme primary checkpoint screening practices and times in the world.