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Link to LHR page on aa.com
Link to London-Heathrow web pages
Link to Wikipedia page on LHR
Link to FT - AA thread London Heathrow (LHR) <-> Gatwick (LGW) Transport / Transfer (master thread)
The vast majority of arriving passengers with a passport from the European Union, Switzerland or, effective 20 May 2019, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea or USA can now use arrival immigration eGates without any fee or pre-registration requirement. But for those transiting LHR with a non-UK/non-Ireland destination and no luggage to claim during transit at LHR, the eGates are generally irrelevant since most such passengers don’t enter the UK-Ireland Common Travel Area.
NOTE: Connecting flights between Terminal 5 and Terminal 3 - please allow a minimum 1 hour 30 minutes between flights.
If you are unsure which terminal your connecting flight departs from, see "Which terminal does my flight depart from / arrive?"
For gate to gate connection assistance in T-3, AA Five Star Service can be used (fee, must be in AA Business or First on incoming or outbound flight). For interterminal assistance, see https://www.heathrow.com/airport-gui...cierge-service for Heathrow Meet and Assist.
LHR is composed of four terminals (Terminal 1 is now permanently closed). American Airlines and many oneworld airlines (e.g. AY, BA, CX, IB, JL, QF, RJ, UL) use Terminal 3. MH and QR use terminal 4. BA uses Terminals 3 and 5. These terminals are not connected - you can not walk from one to the other. Use this tool to see where your next flight departs / arrives.
Transferring/ Connections at LHR interterminal can be done three ways:
Link to interactive custom Heathrow Flight Connections Guide
1) Landside: exit your terminal and process HM immigration and customs as if you were arriving in the UK, then take the free train or busses connecting to other terminals. With most hotels, if you are staying overnight you will most likely utilise the "Heathrow Hoppa" busses costing Ł6 for one person or Ł11 for a family one way, Ł11 for one person and Ł21 for a family return; family is up to 2 adults and 3 children. A small discount is available for buying your ticket at a ticket machine in select hotels or via the HH website. You must proceed landside if planning to use the AA (or BA) Arrivals Lounge, which close at 1400 hrs / 2 PM as these are landside. (See post no. 627, here, for local land & hotel transport options.)
Inter-terminal landside connections can be via rail (free) or walking, depending on the terminals. See the diagram for Heathrow Express terminal connections, free when you are traveling within the airport's confines. See here You can also travel between the terminals, or Hatton Cross station, free of charge via the Piccadilly line, but you must touch a contactless payment card/Apple/Google Pay or Oyster card on the faregates at the start and end of your journey. When changing terminals via Heathrow Express or Elizabeth line you can either do the same or get a free paper ticket.
2) Airside:
Follow the signage to Flight Connections, where you will proceed a bus waiting area at airport ground level and take a bus to your next terminal, where you will proceed through boarding pass, carryon check a standard airport security check. Now you are ready to catch your next flight. Flight connections Minimum Connect Times are ordinarily 75 - 90 minutes (the latter for connections between T3 and T5).
NOTE: You must be at your connecting gate 20 minutes prior to departure. If you must recover bags and re-check (e.g. oneworld to non-oneworld or LCC) you must check your baggage in at least 45 minutes prior to departure.
Use this tool available from this page on LHR's website that include a step by step guide through Flight Connections. The page also offers videos. Use this tool to see where your next flight departs / arrives.[/quote]
Typical Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 Flight Connections path:
T3–>T5 see posts 674, 675.1. Welcome to Heathrow!: On leaving the aircraft, please follow the purple signs for Flight Connections.
2. Flight Connections bus: A dedicated bus will transfer you between terminals. Buses are free and depart every six to ten minutes.
3. Airline desks: Need to visit your airline's ticket desk? You'll find it here.
4. Ready to fly: Staff will check that you're in the right place, your hand baggage meets airline regulations, and you have time to catch your onward flight.
5. Hand baggage check: At this point your hand baggage will be checked to ensure it conforms to UK and EU regulations. Please be aware that liquids in containers over 100ml are not allowed through security.
6. Security screening: You will pass through security screening at this point. If you are a non-UK resident and have goods to declare to HM Customs, please use the Customs telephone before security control.
7. Departure lounge: Check the screens in the departure lounge, which will be updated when your gate opens and again when your flight is ready for boarding.
NOTE: Flight departure gates are listed in only sufficient time to get to the gate, not hours (or often an hour) prior to departure.
Typical Terminal 5 to Terminal 3 Flight Connections path:1. Welcome to Heathrow!: On leaving the aircraft, please follow the purple signs for Flight Connections.
2. Flight Connections bus: A dedicated bus will transfer you between terminals. Buses are free and depart every six to ten minutes.
NOTE: As there is a new AA desk at the bus boarding point, you can get your AA boarding pass and pass the AA oral security questioning while you await the bus.
3. Hand baggage check: At this point your hand baggage will be checked to ensure it conforms to UK and EU regulations. Please be aware that liquids in containers over 100ml are not allowed through security.
4. Security screening: You will pass through security screening at this point. If you are a non-UK resident and have goods to declare to HM Customs, please use the Customs telephone before security control.
5. Airline desks: Need to visit your airline's ticket desk? You'll find it here. But see 2A if flying AA.
6. Departure lounge: Check the screens in the departure lounge, which will be updated when your gate opens and again when your flight is ready for boarding.
Lounges:
Airside lounges at LHR are designated departure lounges. You use the lounge in the terminal you're departing from – arriving and departing passengers are separated, so it's not possible (for example) to use a terminal 5 lounge if you are arriving in terminal 5 and departing from terminal 3.
Terminal 3 lounges include:
Airside, departure lounges:
American Airlines Flagship / First Class Lounge - Lounge Zone H
American Airlines Admirals Club - Lounge Zone H
British Airways Galleries First and Club lounges - Lounge Zone F
Cathay Pacific First and Business lounges near Gate 11
Qantas Airways London Lounge - Lounge B / Gate
Landside, for arriving AA and BA long haul passengers who flew in first or business class, or any class if oneworld Emerald (no guest)
American Airlines Arrivals Lounge (recently renovated)
Terminal 5 lounges:
Airside lounges:
British Airways Concorde Room (longhaul BA First)
British Airways Galleries First Lounge - South Concourse
British Airways Galleries Club lounges both North & South Concourses
British Airways Galleries Club lounge T5B Satellite
Landside, for arriving BA First/Club World passengers and oneworld emerald members in World Traveller or World Traveller Plus (no guest)
British Airways Galleries Arrivals Lounge
For hours, access, amenities, etc. consult the oneworld lounge access tool here
Link to the most useful London Heathrow International Airport website. Click on "Connections" for a connection assistance tool.
For long connections where you might wish to go to London, you can use "the tube" (Underground, ~50 minutes, cheapest), busses to various locations, taxis (the most expensive, about 45 minutes) or "minicabs" and other hired cars, the Heathrow Express (15 minutes to Paddington station) or Heathrow Connect (30 minutes to Paddington). You can also Uber or bus to nearby Windsor town, and with sufficient time even tour Windsor Castle.
For links to local and local hotels, other airports (such as Gatwick, ~1:30), railroad stations (Feltham, Watford, Woking and Reading), intercity coaches (such as Oxford) start at this page.
The Tube takes 50 minutes from the Central / Terminals 2/3, T-4 or T-5 stations using the Piccadilly Line. Link to LHR tube page; link to London Toolkit page on LHR and Piccadilly line; link to Transport for London page.
The Heathrow Express / HEX departs T-5 and takes 21 minutes (it stops at Central / T2/3, six minutes) and onward to Paddington (15 minutes, about 1/3 of the time a taxi would take, though a taxi or bus can tale longer in some traffic). The trains have 15 minute headway (depart every 15 minutes) and have baggage racks.
(If you stay at Hilton T-4, board HEX at T-5, go to Central / T-2/3, get off, take the connecting train to T-4 (4 minutes), all free. From T-4 follow the signs to the hotel, perhaps 10 minute walk by covered board walk).
The Elizabeth Line (formerly TfL Rail) costs less, takes 30 minutes to Paddington from the Heathrow stations, and continues to key central London destinations such as Tottenham Court Road and Liverpool Street.
This London Heathrow International Airport connection / transfer thread has been split off from the original thread, which can be read here: BA T5 <-> AA T3 transfer /connection at LHR / Heathrow (obsolete, trailing thread).
For other terminals please see ARCHIVE: BA T5 <-> AA T3 transfer /connection at LHR / Heathrow
Also see this page for MCT information.
Link to LHR page on aa.com
Link to London-Heathrow web pages
Link to Wikipedia page on LHR
Link to FT - AA thread London Heathrow (LHR) <-> Gatwick (LGW) Transport / Transfer (master thread)
The vast majority of arriving passengers with a passport from the European Union, Switzerland or, effective 20 May 2019, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea or USA can now use arrival immigration eGates without any fee or pre-registration requirement. But for those transiting LHR with a non-UK/non-Ireland destination and no luggage to claim during transit at LHR, the eGates are generally irrelevant since most such passengers don’t enter the UK-Ireland Common Travel Area.
NOTE: Connecting flights between Terminal 5 and Terminal 3 - please allow a minimum 1 hour 30 minutes between flights.
If you are unsure which terminal your connecting flight departs from, see "Which terminal does my flight depart from / arrive?"
For gate to gate connection assistance in T-3, AA Five Star Service can be used (fee, must be in AA Business or First on incoming or outbound flight). For interterminal assistance, see https://www.heathrow.com/airport-gui...cierge-service for Heathrow Meet and Assist.
LHR is composed of four terminals (Terminal 1 is now permanently closed). American Airlines and many oneworld airlines (e.g. AY, BA, CX, IB, JL, QF, RJ, UL) use Terminal 3. MH and QR use terminal 4. BA uses Terminals 3 and 5. These terminals are not connected - you can not walk from one to the other. Use this tool to see where your next flight departs / arrives.
Transferring/ Connections at LHR interterminal can be done three ways:
Link to interactive custom Heathrow Flight Connections Guide
1) Landside: exit your terminal and process HM immigration and customs as if you were arriving in the UK, then take the free train or busses connecting to other terminals. With most hotels, if you are staying overnight you will most likely utilise the "Heathrow Hoppa" busses costing Ł6 for one person or Ł11 for a family one way, Ł11 for one person and Ł21 for a family return; family is up to 2 adults and 3 children. A small discount is available for buying your ticket at a ticket machine in select hotels or via the HH website. You must proceed landside if planning to use the AA (or BA) Arrivals Lounge, which close at 1400 hrs / 2 PM as these are landside. (See post no. 627, here, for local land & hotel transport options.)
Inter-terminal landside connections can be via rail (free) or walking, depending on the terminals. See the diagram for Heathrow Express terminal connections, free when you are traveling within the airport's confines. See here You can also travel between the terminals, or Hatton Cross station, free of charge via the Piccadilly line, but you must touch a contactless payment card/Apple/Google Pay or Oyster card on the faregates at the start and end of your journey. When changing terminals via Heathrow Express or Elizabeth line you can either do the same or get a free paper ticket.
2) Airside:
Follow the signage to Flight Connections, where you will proceed a bus waiting area at airport ground level and take a bus to your next terminal, where you will proceed through boarding pass, carryon check a standard airport security check. Now you are ready to catch your next flight. Flight connections Minimum Connect Times are ordinarily 75 - 90 minutes (the latter for connections between T3 and T5).
NOTE: You must be at your connecting gate 20 minutes prior to departure. If you must recover bags and re-check (e.g. oneworld to non-oneworld or LCC) you must check your baggage in at least 45 minutes prior to departure.
Use this tool available from this page on LHR's website that include a step by step guide through Flight Connections. The page also offers videos. Use this tool to see where your next flight departs / arrives.[/quote]
Typical Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 Flight Connections path:
T3–>T5 see posts 674, 675.1. Welcome to Heathrow!: On leaving the aircraft, please follow the purple signs for Flight Connections.
2. Flight Connections bus: A dedicated bus will transfer you between terminals. Buses are free and depart every six to ten minutes.
3. Airline desks: Need to visit your airline's ticket desk? You'll find it here.
4. Ready to fly: Staff will check that you're in the right place, your hand baggage meets airline regulations, and you have time to catch your onward flight.
5. Hand baggage check: At this point your hand baggage will be checked to ensure it conforms to UK and EU regulations. Please be aware that liquids in containers over 100ml are not allowed through security.
6. Security screening: You will pass through security screening at this point. If you are a non-UK resident and have goods to declare to HM Customs, please use the Customs telephone before security control.
7. Departure lounge: Check the screens in the departure lounge, which will be updated when your gate opens and again when your flight is ready for boarding.
NOTE: Flight departure gates are listed in only sufficient time to get to the gate, not hours (or often an hour) prior to departure.
Typical Terminal 5 to Terminal 3 Flight Connections path:1. Welcome to Heathrow!: On leaving the aircraft, please follow the purple signs for Flight Connections.
2. Flight Connections bus: A dedicated bus will transfer you between terminals. Buses are free and depart every six to ten minutes.
NOTE: As there is a new AA desk at the bus boarding point, you can get your AA boarding pass and pass the AA oral security questioning while you await the bus.
3. Hand baggage check: At this point your hand baggage will be checked to ensure it conforms to UK and EU regulations. Please be aware that liquids in containers over 100ml are not allowed through security.
4. Security screening: You will pass through security screening at this point. If you are a non-UK resident and have goods to declare to HM Customs, please use the Customs telephone before security control.
5. Airline desks: Need to visit your airline's ticket desk? You'll find it here. But see 2A if flying AA.
6. Departure lounge: Check the screens in the departure lounge, which will be updated when your gate opens and again when your flight is ready for boarding.
Lounges:
Airside lounges at LHR are designated departure lounges. You use the lounge in the terminal you're departing from – arriving and departing passengers are separated, so it's not possible (for example) to use a terminal 5 lounge if you are arriving in terminal 5 and departing from terminal 3.
Terminal 3 lounges include:
Airside, departure lounges:
American Airlines Flagship / First Class Lounge - Lounge Zone H
American Airlines Admirals Club - Lounge Zone H
British Airways Galleries First and Club lounges - Lounge Zone F
Cathay Pacific First and Business lounges near Gate 11
Qantas Airways London Lounge - Lounge B / Gate
Landside, for arriving AA and BA long haul passengers who flew in first or business class, or any class if oneworld Emerald (no guest)
American Airlines Arrivals Lounge (recently renovated)
Terminal 5 lounges:
Airside lounges:
British Airways Concorde Room (longhaul BA First)
British Airways Galleries First Lounge - South Concourse
British Airways Galleries Club lounges both North & South Concourses
British Airways Galleries Club lounge T5B Satellite
Landside, for arriving BA First/Club World passengers and oneworld emerald members in World Traveller or World Traveller Plus (no guest)
British Airways Galleries Arrivals Lounge
For hours, access, amenities, etc. consult the oneworld lounge access tool here
Link to the most useful London Heathrow International Airport website. Click on "Connections" for a connection assistance tool.
For long connections where you might wish to go to London, you can use "the tube" (Underground, ~50 minutes, cheapest), busses to various locations, taxis (the most expensive, about 45 minutes) or "minicabs" and other hired cars, the Heathrow Express (15 minutes to Paddington station) or Heathrow Connect (30 minutes to Paddington). You can also Uber or bus to nearby Windsor town, and with sufficient time even tour Windsor Castle.
For links to local and local hotels, other airports (such as Gatwick, ~1:30), railroad stations (Feltham, Watford, Woking and Reading), intercity coaches (such as Oxford) start at this page.
The Tube takes 50 minutes from the Central / Terminals 2/3, T-4 or T-5 stations using the Piccadilly Line. Link to LHR tube page; link to London Toolkit page on LHR and Piccadilly line; link to Transport for London page.
The Heathrow Express / HEX departs T-5 and takes 21 minutes (it stops at Central / T2/3, six minutes) and onward to Paddington (15 minutes, about 1/3 of the time a taxi would take, though a taxi or bus can tale longer in some traffic). The trains have 15 minute headway (depart every 15 minutes) and have baggage racks.
(If you stay at Hilton T-4, board HEX at T-5, go to Central / T-2/3, get off, take the connecting train to T-4 (4 minutes), all free. From T-4 follow the signs to the hotel, perhaps 10 minute walk by covered board walk).
The Elizabeth Line (formerly TfL Rail) costs less, takes 30 minutes to Paddington from the Heathrow stations, and continues to key central London destinations such as Tottenham Court Road and Liverpool Street.
This London Heathrow International Airport connection / transfer thread has been split off from the original thread, which can be read here: BA T5 <-> AA T3 transfer /connection at LHR / Heathrow (obsolete, trailing thread).
For other terminals please see ARCHIVE: BA T5 <-> AA T3 transfer /connection at LHR / Heathrow
Also see this page for MCT information.
GUIDE: LHR / London Heathrow, Connection, MCT inc. AA T3 <--> BA/IB T5
Jan 22, 2018, 11:38 pm
#526
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Transferring BA T5 ->> AA T3 today.
Only hand luggage, BA Gold/OWE card. Don't have my AA boarding pass yet as BA OLCI is unable to manage onward check-in on AA flights. 2h30 mins connecting time.
I understand that I can get my AA boarding pass and do the US "questions" already at T5. Security will then be at T3. Is there a fast lane at T3 transfer security for OWE or Business class pax? Otherwise, how crowded is the T3 security usually?
I wonder whether going landside at T5, checking in at T3 and using the fast lane at security there isn't an option which may not be much faster, but instead of standing in line I at least do some walking.
What are people's experience with T5 ->> T3 transfers?
Only hand luggage, BA Gold/OWE card. Don't have my AA boarding pass yet as BA OLCI is unable to manage onward check-in on AA flights. 2h30 mins connecting time.
I understand that I can get my AA boarding pass and do the US "questions" already at T5. Security will then be at T3. Is there a fast lane at T3 transfer security for OWE or Business class pax? Otherwise, how crowded is the T3 security usually?
I wonder whether going landside at T5, checking in at T3 and using the fast lane at security there isn't an option which may not be much faster, but instead of standing in line I at least do some walking.
What are people's experience with T5 ->> T3 transfers?
Jan 23, 2018, 3:18 am
#528
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I flew on BA from ZRH to LHR (today) arriving in T5 (satellite area). I deplaned at 2:15 pm. Following the "connection" signs there was an agent (AA?) posted at one spot, she asked "are you flying to New York?", I replied yes, in bc, she directed me to a T3 bus stop, within 2 minutes a bus arrived, 9 minutes later I was in T3, via Fast Track I cleared security and was in T3 Flagship lounge by 2:45 pm.
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
Yes, everyone transiting from T5 to T5 has access to the bus
Jan 23, 2018, 3:24 am
#529
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Transferring BA T5 ->> AA T3 today.
Only hand luggage, BA Gold/OWE card. Don't have my AA boarding pass yet as BA OLCI is unable to manage onward check-in on AA flights. 2h30 mins connecting time.
I understand that I can get my AA boarding pass and do the US "questions" already at T5. Security will then be at T3. Is there a fast lane at T3 transfer security for OWE or Business class pax? Otherwise, how crowded is the T3 security usually?
I wonder whether going landside at T5, checking in at T3 and using the fast lane at security there isn't an option which may not be much faster, but instead of standing in line I at least do some walking.
What are people's experience with T5 ->> T3 transfers?
Only hand luggage, BA Gold/OWE card. Don't have my AA boarding pass yet as BA OLCI is unable to manage onward check-in on AA flights. 2h30 mins connecting time.
I understand that I can get my AA boarding pass and do the US "questions" already at T5. Security will then be at T3. Is there a fast lane at T3 transfer security for OWE or Business class pax? Otherwise, how crowded is the T3 security usually?
I wonder whether going landside at T5, checking in at T3 and using the fast lane at security there isn't an option which may not be much faster, but instead of standing in line I at least do some walking.
What are people's experience with T5 ->> T3 transfers?
Jan 23, 2018, 5:36 am
#530
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You'll arrive at one of T5 satellites, take the train to the main terminal and transfer immediately to T3 by bus. As soon as you get to T3, before security, there are AA desks where you can get your boarding pass. And yes, you have fast lane at security. Enjoy the Qantas new lounge - it's beautiful! And prepare to walk from the lounges to the AA gates ...
Jan 23, 2018, 6:06 am
#531
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There are two imbedded questions: was the agent who directed me to the bus from AA (since she specifically asked about New York)? Why does Delta have a SECURITY CHECK {after clearing T3 security) area (as well as a few other airlines) but not AA?
[At the gate for my AA107 to JFK, an agent had a paper with 10 (or so) names on it, those pax were diverted to a special table: those pax were swabbed, patted, carry-on luggage inspected; except for those pre-selected pax, NO security questions were asked.]
[At the gate for my AA107 to JFK, an agent had a paper with 10 (or so) names on it, those pax were diverted to a special table: those pax were swabbed, patted, carry-on luggage inspected; except for those pre-selected pax, NO security questions were asked.]
Jan 23, 2018, 6:35 am
#532
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This question just came up in the BA forum yesterday:
Why are there AA ground staff in T5?
Why are there AA ground staff in T5?
Jan 23, 2018, 8:24 am
#533
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That's because of a asymmetry between the numbers transferring between the two terminals - more people will be connecting T3 to T5 than vice versa.
IIRC that's because AA has it's desks and staff before the security screening area (you get off the bus walk down a corridor and AA is to the left and securuty up and to the right) hence that's where the AA staff are.
You must have got very lost or walked very slowly then for it to take that long.
You must have got very lost or walked very slowly then for it to take that long.
Jan 23, 2018, 8:35 am
#534
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I flew on BA from ZRH to LHR (today) arriving in T5 (satellite area). I deplaned at 2:15 pm. Following the "connection" signs there was an agent (AA?) posted at one spot, she asked "are you flying to New York?", I replied yes, in bc, she directed me to a T3 bus stop, within 2 minutes a bus arrived, 9 minutes later I was in T3, via Fast Track I cleared security and was in T3 Flagship lounge by 2:45 pm.
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
Jan 23, 2018, 10:04 am
#535
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Robust thread here too. Might find useful info.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...onnection.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...onnection.html
Jan 23, 2018, 10:23 am
#536
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I believe I have just as many trips from T3 to T5 as I have done from T5 to T3.
Jan 23, 2018, 10:30 am
#537
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I flew on BA from ZRH to LHR (today) arriving in T5 (satellite area). I deplaned at 2:15 pm. Following the "connection" signs there was an agent (AA?) posted at one spot, she asked "are you flying to New York?", I replied yes, in bc, she directed me to a T3 bus stop, within 2 minutes a bus arrived, 9 minutes later I was in T3, via Fast Track I cleared security and was in T3 Flagship lounge by 2:45 pm.
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
The T5 to T3 bus had 6 pax (usually packed on T3 to T5). If I were only in Y shouldn't I still have access to the bus?
After clearing security I noted Delta had a special security area with lots of agents, AA has no presence in that area
[A year or two ago I connected T5 to T5, I had to take a train (within T5) and with huge amounts of walking, it took over 90 minutes to make my collection.]
Jan 23, 2018, 11:57 am
#539
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What I am saying is that overall more passengers transfer from T3 to T5 than T5 to T3 hence the difference in how busy the buses are. Just because your trips are fairly even does not mean everyone elses are.
Jan 23, 2018, 1:21 pm
#540
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Why would a passenger who has gone from T5 to T3 to need to go back to T5? They would be flyign out from T3.
What I am saying is that overall more passengers transfer from T3 to T5 than T5 to T3 hence the difference in how busy the buses are. Just because your trips are fairly even does not mean everyone elses are.
What I am saying is that overall more passengers transfer from T3 to T5 than T5 to T3 hence the difference in how busy the buses are. Just because your trips are fairly even does not mean everyone elses are.
Last edited by Djokison; Jan 23, 2018 at 5:27 pm Reason: Edited for typo