Originally Posted by
danprsd
Thank you so much for your response.
I hope am not required to have a Valid UK Visit VISA or a Direct Airside Transit Visa for making this connection or taking the Aiport Bus?
Not according to the
this website from the UK Border Agency. Point (a) towards the bottom seems to be the relevant one here:
Holders of certain documents are, regardless of nationality, exempt from the requirement to hold a Direct Airside Transit Visa when transiting the UK.
A transit passenger is not required to hold a transit visa if he holds, or a person with whom he arrives in the United Kingdom holds on his behalf:
(a) a valid visa for entry to Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the United States of America and a valid airline ticket for travel via the United Kingdom as part of a journey from another country or territory to the country for which the visa is held...
I don't think the fact that the airside transfer involves a bus rather than simply a journey on foot or a trip on an airport monorail (or whatever else) makes any difference.
However, you might want to take a copy of the relevant page from the UK Border Agency website for when you check in, in case you encounter an over-zealous check-in person who misinterprets the rules (or can't be bothered to read them).