<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by J S:
How early do you realistically need to check in in BOM? (Would love to take a shower for the sake of the person sitting next to me.)</font>
I assume you are flying BOM-LHR. When I took this flight on Apr 22, it took me about 2 hours from the time I walked through the front doors to the time I got to the lounge.
It took about 40 minutes to get my checked bags x-ray-ed. Ticketing took little to no time because I was in the Business class line, so it sounds like you're fine there. Then it took another 1 hour+ to get through customs.