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Old Jul 4, 2015, 2:18 pm
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Originally Posted by mikem004
Going BA domestic-AA international, T5 -> T3, all on BA ticket

LBA-LHR, LHR-LAX, 3 hr layover

I presume all boarding passes are issued at LBA by BA staff, and bags checked through.
AT LHR, do I need to stay airside and follow signs for Flight Connections?
Or just get the bus to T3 and either check-in with AA as normal, or go straight to security if I have a boarding pass for AA.
Assuming it's all on one ticket, your bags should be checked through from LBA to LAX , and you have the choice of staying airside or going landside at LHR. However, the bus is airside vi a Flight Connections, the terminal transfer landside is by public train (Heathrow Express, it's free between terminals). Either way, you will have to clear security again at T3. There are a couple of recent threads on the BA forum on this very subject, have a look, they are not too long. Generally the best advice on these is that given by corporate-wage-slave.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-how-long.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...nnections.html
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