Originally Posted by
dgold21
Yes it's separate tickets, the AE flight is a positioning flight. It seems that I should probably save the stress and change it. Very thankful for the insight!
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Bussing to Terminal 5 (not 4 - that will waste considerable time), recovering baggage from the carousel, walking it to TBIT (use escalators to go up to departure level once you are there), queuing up, checking in, processing sometimes lengthy security queues... on separate tickets.
It can be done, assuming you arrive spot on time, but in my opinion with some stress.