Originally Posted by Solarmoon
This brings up a tangentially related question. My wife and I are traveling to/from Switzerland this summer. I'm getting an Award seat for my wife and we're flying into Zurich, but there is nothing returning from Geneva and so the agent got us a ticket that departs from LHR terminal 3 at 2:15pm and told us to find our own way to London.
We're flying to London from Geneva on a cheap one-way ($90) on British Airways (from expedia) that same morning arriving LHR terminal 4 at 11am.
Three hours seems like plenty of time to make a connection, but I have a few questions:
1) Is it possible to interline bags so that they are transfered automatically onto our United transatlantic from our BA flight?
2) Is there an airside way to move from terminal 4 to terminal 3 without going through immigration/customs? (I ask because my wife is an Indian citizen and a US permanent resident but would need a visa to visit the UK. I'd like to avoid having to get a visa for a 3 hour transit!)
Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I didn't see anything when I searched in either the London or British Airways forum.
1. Usually it is possible with BA and UA. Rules has been changing recently so I would not be surprised if they no longer do it. But try to insist. In my experience it is more difficult to convince checkin agent in US that such thing is possible than an agent of major airline in Europe. I definitely have never had any problems with BA agents.
2. A. Yes it is possible to move between LHR terminals airside without going through immigration.
B. US Permanent residents do not need transit visas for UK if they depart within 24 hours regardless of their citizinship. So you have an option to go through immigration if you prefer.