I am getting a little excited about a trip next week: a much delayed ORD-MSY-DFW-LHR with an old friend/partner in crime, and my first LH flight without the family since late 2019. It’s also my first flight on the 380 (well, with BA, but a Tasman hop on an Emirates 380 in Y barely counts…)

So my question, which I suspect has been answered but I cannot find, is: what time should I get to the C gates for? I’m flying in F, but if I miss Group 1 will I be able to still whisk by the crowds given the 380 boarding jetways being different? I’ve rarely had a good LHR gate experience in long haul premium, but don’t want to leave the CCR and have to linger around the gate, but nor can I be particularly bothered to go to the B gates as a half-way point.

I am used to SH and arriving at the gate at T-25, but know LH is a different game. And I’ve forgotten how to play…pan-pan!