Gate checking into LHR
On an Embraer tonight ex-GLA so no room to not check. We could gate check, but I seem to think that gate checking into LHR means that you still have to pick your bags up at the belt, so at that point we might as well check completely and not carry the bags around the terminal.
Do I have it wrong on where gate checked bags are collected at LHR?
(And to settle an argument with another FTer, is GLA-LHR a regional service or not?)