Originally Posted by EvilDoctorK

Do they not trust the Qatar pilots to park ?? .. Flew back on the BA883 from Kiev today .. pleasant flight on the purple airbus ... but when we arrived at Heathrow we stopped on the taxiway at the North End of the C gates .. then shut everything down and the captain announced we were waiting for a tug to come and tow us on to stand - eventually one showed up and pulled us along the far side of the C gates to a remote stand opposite them on the South End ( by the old fuel tanks ) .. Looked like a normal looking stand - not sure why self parking wasn't an option and we had to get the valet (tug!)

That and the usual messing around with buses took some of the good out of an otherwise pleasant flight ... more curious though as to why this was the case - I can only recall something like this occasionally before at some US Airport ( maybe the old terminal in LAX?) where it was very tight and they towed the aircraft the last bit of the way onto the gate .. never seen it at LHR before