Originally Posted by
joshnesbit
sorry to jump into a thread that's so old, but was wondering how operationally it would work when the doors so that passengers can transverse the corridor to and from are open works. Does it temporarily stop the flow of traffic through the pier? as people are having to wait whilst other passengers (arriving or departing depending on the situation) cross the road?
I have flown in and out of LHR T3 for 30 years and experienced this for the first time a month or so ago. My AA flight departed out of one of these gates — I didn’t realize AA still uses these gates — and as I walked from the lounge (the CX lounge, of course!) to the gate, I was stopped and had to wait what seemed like a significant amount of time while passengers disembarked a recently arrived aircraft. It made me wonder — and I apologize if this already has been discussed in this thread — whether LHR is able to time this to eliminate (or at least reduce) the chances that it causes a passenger to miss a flight.