stifle

You can't physically do that. Once you get to the lounge you cannot exit the terminal without a very good reason, as you have to get a staff member to escort you out through immigration and customs.

Give as much as you can to your travelling partner, then exit through immigration and customs when you arrive, while your partner goes through transit security.

It could add 30 minutes to your transit time depending on how busy immigration is. If your inbound flight is delayed, be prepared to abandon the drop-off.

altyrocket

Hi,

Looking for some advice. T5 newbie.

Flying MAN-LHR-ICN return in late April in WT+. Saturday flights in both directions.

Options for the ICN connection are 1h 35m or 2h 25m.

On the return its 1h 15m or 3h 10m.

I am erring towards the latter option in both cases. Right decision ?

Also does anyone know if this route is operated by a 772 or 773 or both ?


Thanks in advance.

The _Banking_Scot

Hi altyrocket,

Both 1 hr 35min and 1 hr 15 should be ok

On the outbound ( 1 hr 35min) you do not have to reclear security so you simply go through the boarding pass check and you are in the departures area.

However if there is a delay and you miss the LHR-ICN flight you could be delayed by a day. The 2hr 25 connection time would give a bit more leeway

On the return you have to get ( potentially from the B or C gates) to the A main terminal by train and reclear security before heading to the gate. However if you miss your flight BA will put you on the next flight ( maybe an hour later)

It probably helps if you are on one ticket.
Regards

TBS

altyrocket

Thanks for the reply.

I'll take the longer connections. It will be one ticket, so that will help if this go array.

carsnoceans

Bump...

Got a T5-T5 transit tomorrow (intl to intl)... didn't quite realize LHR is such a pain even if its the same terminal. Got 70mins for transit so definitely a delay or remote gate is not going to help.

Any tips on streamlining the process? Is there a priority security check for J/F pax?

UKtravelbear

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...it-70mins.html

alanR

Guess you don't do many International-International transfers. Some countries would require you to pass through immigration and customs meaning that you have to allow several hours for a connection.

stut

There are shortcuts, if you happen to be arriving and departing from the same pier - but that's down to luck. Do look at the screens on arrival - you may be in luck.

Otherwise, yes, there is FastTrack, but there are recent reports (see the BA forum) of this being fairly slow. The UK considers itself at severe risk from terrorist attack at the moment, and LHR's response at T5 is to make security appear as thorough as possible.

carsnoceans

1. I haven't flown thru LHR in almost a decade.

2. Done plenty of international transfers and never have been asked to clear immigration for doing a transit (schengan/non-schengan aside).

3. This was sold as a legal fare (on same PNR). If it was under the minimum connection time, BA shouldn't be ticketing it.

lhrsfo

You have clearly not done one in the USA, where you go through Immigration, fingerprinting and generally being treated like a criminal with 1 hour plus queues before heading to a similar nonsense at security.

carsnoceans

Why would I do transit there when its my destination...

Microwave

I think lhrsfo was just saying that transiting the USA does involve all that absurdness... Not in one specific situation but in general.

Silver Fox

He was right then. Next time we will have him place a sign in the thread to make the point clearer for those that are hard of understanding.

carsnoceans

Hold your sarcasm for yourself until I finish this post...

I understood his point very well. I just meant that I have never transited through USA bcos it's my origin or destination. Unfortunately, they do treat everyone like a criminal. It sucks but you do understand the reason behind their paranoia, right?

Also, one of the poster's above said that I clearly haven't done many international transits in my life. I have probably transited through 10-15 countries in my life and surely lots of people have transited through lots more. However, the absolutely ridiculous comment that I have not done enough intl transfers reflects that the poster above is clueless himself. If they are quite that experienced with transfer through LHR, they would have known min legal connect times. If anything short, BA shouldn't have issued it as a through fare.

Anyways, I don't mean to start a piss-off match here. Peace out. ^

SFOPhD

I'm pondering a 1 hr 45 min. connection TXL-LHR-SFO. It appears to be a T5-T5 connection. 1) I presume this is a comfortable time because although I'm going through security again, I'm not going through immigration. Is that reasonable cushion? 2) The tickets would be on separate PNRs (one award and the other revenue) but both on BA. I think I'm protected by BA if the first flight is late... Is that correct or do both flights need to be on the same ticket?

Thanks in advance for the help!