Originally Posted by
matthewuk
LHR opens *way* before 6am, with both runways operating as landing runways between 05:00 and 06:00 - unless you are one of the first few 747s in from Asia or NA you will not be at the front of the queue. I would much rather land at 6:55 than 5:55 (although of course you would get the extra hour to queue!)
Now I'm confused. I know that when one of my ORD-LHR flights was massivly early - say 5:15 instead of 5:55 the pilot said we'd be circling because LHR didn't receive traffic until 6:00. Did I misunderstand?