Originally Posted by
NYTA
This is actually amazing news as I have done Easyjet with hand-luggage before and gone to T1 - will be happy to save a few minutes now although in my experience the security and passport controls at T1 were faster than T3 so it isn't that much of a difference.
If traveling to the airport by car I would probably agree with you. But if you go there by train, you would need to take the slow shuttle bus to T1, clear security, and then take another bus back to T3 past security. So in that case, it's much better to go straight in through T3 security.