Originally Posted by jral
I'm sure that this has been asked here a hundred times, but I couldn't find the thread. Why is is that some BA overseas flights use Terminal 1 (NRT,HKG,LAX, SFO, JNB etc), when all the others use Term 4? And further to that, why do El Al & SAA use it too? (I seem to rememeber for that for years El Al & SAA have, correct?)
I can appreciate that AMS uses T4 given the connection traffic, but why T1 for "select" cities?
While I'm on the topic, who will use T5 once it's open?
Thanks in advance.
I don't know why BA have switched some long-haul flights to T1, but I've assumed they did it to reduce congestion in the terminal. Rather than having say, 7-10 long haul flights leaving within 2 hours of each other and having to check in all the paxs, they can reduce queuing time by say, having 2-4 flights in T1 and the remainder in T4.
I thought that BA will consolidate all it's flights into T5 when it opens and perhaps be joined by other OW carriers. I hear *A wants T1.
EL AL switched over to T1 from T3 many years ago after the massacre in Vienna and Rome airports. Their passenger used to check-in after passport control but now do it before.
Not sure about SAA. Don't forget Icelandair (which ought to be in T3 with SAS) and Cyprusair are alsi T1.