Tracking BA Fast Track and Priority Boarding
#751
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 433
To answer my own question-now that I actually flew the trip- Yes, Fast Track through the connections center (where your boarding pass is scanned) is available and we were the only ones using it. After going through that we did land up in a separate line at the security screening point with about only 7-8 other passengers ahead of us. But this line had a sign saying "Test Security". I asked an employee monitoring the line if it was fast track and he said "no- but this line will be very quick". While initially there were signs saying remove shoes, remove laptops and all liquids" the guy monitoring the line kept shouting out "Don't remove your shoes and don't remove anything from your bags". So we wizzed right through security. I guess they are testing new equipment where nothing has to be removed. Hope the test works out well as it sure saves time and effort.
#752
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: NCL
Programs: BA Exec Club: Gold HHons:Diamond FB:Ivory Accor:Plat Hertz: PC USA:GlobalEntry
Posts: 225
Noticed today they have removed the group 1 seating area signage at NCL. Groups 1,2. & 3 (all lined up at door to gate) were beeped through directly onto aircraft. GCH and SCHs need to line up early now to guarantee overhead stowage.
#754
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: *G | OW Sapphire
Posts: 144
#755
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: *G | OW Sapphire
Posts: 144
if it fails, maybe i can grt licky by showing my A3*G (although flying BA) :-D
#757
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: London, United Kingdom
Programs: BA Gold / Intercontinental Ambassador/IHG Platinum
Posts: 47
Fast track at Thessaloniki
Whole family of 3 in club Europe flying out of thessaloniki in October 2022 - our boarding passes gave no access to fast track security.
#758
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: Alaska MM, AA MM, BA Silver, Bonvoy Lifetime Gold
Posts: 314
I am pretty sure the answer is still "no" but wanted to check. Is Fast Track security for transfers still closed? Traveling through LHR on December 7 (SEA-LHR-AMS) with an approximate 4 hour layover gate info will not be available. (To use Terminal B security.) Thanks!!
#759
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Programs: TK Elite Plus,QR Platinum,BAEC GGL,ITA Executive, AFKL Gold, HH Diamond,Bonvoy Gold,ALL Gold
Posts: 14,180
Heathrow T5 connections fast-track security is open since July 2022.
#761
Join Date: Jan 2022
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 1,415
I think it's only sporadically open. I usually go through immigration and then through Firt Wing security, but a couple of times in the last few months I've been worried about making conformance and gone through connections security. The Fast Track part was not in use. I asked anyway to the guy managing traffic and both times they lied and said fast track is upstairs, even when I asked if they were really sure. And obviously when I got upstairs, there was no fast track.
#762
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: WAW ✈ LHR ✈ GLA
Programs: BA GfL/GGL/CCR, HH Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 2,492
#763
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 1,018
Perhaps it's a festive gift to all passengers over the holidays