Originally Posted by
catandmouse
Well both LH and AF post gates ages in advance, they're usually on the connecting boarding passes you get with your long-hauls. They don't change very much in my experience.
I've always felt the lounge in T5B is a bit useless as I can't see any point in moving from a lounge in T5A for a few minutes in T5B, with the little advance information about T5B departures.
Yes, but but ... Neither LH nor AF are using T5.
So, moving swiftly on ... The T5B Lounge is delightful, and IMO infinitely better to the yakking world of Galleries North or South. But, again, until BA is sure they have a serviceable aircraft good to go from the B Gates, there's no sense in sending people over there (thanks to the iconic one way train system). But, yet again, we've been sent there at bag drop, at T-2 hours. Which was very nice.
Lounge hopping might appeal to some, I find it a PITA. But that's the way BA and Lord Architect declared it should be. I still think the whole place is s h I t