Originally Posted by
ratypus
In terms of connection - that's very helpful, thanks. I normally make a real effort to travel HBO on these itineraries, but is PHL somewhere it's fairly painless to retrieve checked backs and re-check them? I'm not on a super-tight connection (just over 3 hours), just want to avoid standing in too many mega-queues.
BA have just (last few weeks) introduced a brand new "short transfer segregation" at PHL, which essentially means that passenger data held in LHR is processed and understood at the PHL end. Now 3 hours would not be my definition of a short transfer, but at least in theory the baggage should be there swiftly. But if queue avoidance is the name of the game then you would be HBO.