Originally Posted by
steview111
The reason is because T4 staying closed is putting pressure on the remaining terminals at certain times of day during the planned Summer schedule. The majority of ex-T4 flights are going into T3.
T5B/C gates actually have relatively low utilisation in terms of number of flights using them per day (even pre-Covid), so moving a few AA widebodies over to make room at T3 is just Heathrow trying to maximise use of resources without having to reopen T4. Nothing to do with premium passenger experience, unfortunately.
This has nothing to do with other terminals being full and T5B/C are hardly under-utilised. Moving AA to T5 means more BA in T3 so there will be no freeing up of capacity there.
This move was in discussion long before COVID as it’s always been a desire within the AJB to have some degree of co-location.