I don't understand this, are you travelling in Y class?
Otherwise, BA to BA in premium cabins, you'll get a fastrack card and be thru immigration in 5 minutes and then into the fastrack security lane, which in my experience is another 10 minutes. Then you have some very nice lounges, especially if you are in F.
I have nonstops to AMS, FRA, CDG and LHR from my home airport, and since I've started favoring BA/LHR I have been very happy. I avoided LHR like the plague until T5 was finished, since then it is up there at the top, the need for a (quick) immigration and security checks notwithstanding. Don't even get me started on the US airports (which AA, DL and UA try to route me thru)... JFK preferable to LHR?? Certainly not for me...
Originally Posted by
hillrider
While I don't personally hate LHR with a passion, I find the fact that you have to go through a (badly run and always understaffed) "security" screening on connecting flights a complete hassle and one where your oneworld status is not recognized, and the additional "conformance" check and associated lines an absolute head scratcher customer dissatisfying bureaucratic hurdle. Don't get me started if you're arriving and departing from T5B: they train you to T5A so you can line up twice for "conformance" and "security" and then train you back to T5B. And if it snows 5cm, then all hell breaks loose.
Personally, I think LHR as a shopping mall rather than a connecting hub. As a mall, it's very pleasant indeed, but as a tool for facilitating travel, not very. Would rather connect through AMS or ZRH every day, or any of the US hubs.