How to exit T5 from Departures level?
Oct 1, 2014, 10:11 am
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Probably all systems from a Dutch company called Aviavox. If you listen to the T5 announcements, she has a very slight Dutch accent to her English. Clever technology that uses snippets of sound to generate announcements on the fly.
Oct 1, 2014, 10:13 am
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Aha, I could never tell what the accent was. I don't think I guessed Dutch. Thanks.
Oct 1, 2014, 11:16 am
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If this can happen then it's completely plausible that breaches can take place at airports.
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Oct 1, 2014, 2:57 pm
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I have no plans or intention to get into an argument with you. It's been made clear that leaving bags unattended is not allowed. Think whatever you'd like to.
Oct 1, 2014, 3:12 pm
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Oct 1, 2014, 3:20 pm
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I don't think the OP was suggesting the hand luggage is just left on a random seat in T5 airside.
Oct 1, 2014, 3:21 pm
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Oct 1, 2014, 3:25 pm
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Are you saying that giving your bag to the lounge attendant at T5 F-Lounge, getting a tag number for it, and wandering off to the lounge or shopping is not allowed? Technically that's leaving them unattended.
I don't think the OP was suggesting the hand luggage is just left on a random seat in T5 airside.
I don't think the OP was suggesting the hand luggage is just left on a random seat in T5 airside.
Oct 1, 2014, 3:29 pm
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If storing a bag landslde were to cost Ł50 or not be available at all, and the trip to the lounge and out took 10 minutes, then it would make full sense to do it. But it's not the case here.
Oct 2, 2014, 3:21 am
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Seriously, either you've done security screening on something and deemed it safe, or you haven't, there really isn't a lot of middle ground. Suitcases don't get more dangerous by a mystical inverse relationship of the distance from their owner.
There is also the issue of the degree of security screening carried out by the fine staff at Excess Baggage Company downstairs in T5. Is their screening really as good as that up in Departures level? They certainly take less time about it. Do they check for laptops that won't power up? Do they check for >100ml liquids? Do they look through the lenses of cameras?
Oct 2, 2014, 3:23 am
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I thought that when T5 was opened.
But I've come to the conclusion that this was chosen so that the voice doesn't generate unnecessary stress. Not perhaps quite what you'd call calming or soothing, but a million miles away from the shouty announcements that are so familiar in other countries (mentioning no names) that inevitably have the effect of driving up your blood pressure even if you're first in the queue at the gate and have nothing more to do except walk on board.
But I've come to the conclusion that this was chosen so that the voice doesn't generate unnecessary stress. Not perhaps quite what you'd call calming or soothing, but a million miles away from the shouty announcements that are so familiar in other countries (mentioning no names) that inevitably have the effect of driving up your blood pressure even if you're first in the queue at the gate and have nothing more to do except walk on board.
Oct 2, 2014, 3:35 am
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Oh come on, you are just splitting hairs now - T5 in total.
In any case, unusually for FT this thread seemed to have wandered well off the original question now and gone in to hypothetical discussions about something that really doesn't matter in the real world since no one is actually leaving bags in the lounges and then exiting to go on day trips to central London.
In any case, unusually for FT this thread seemed to have wandered well off the original question now and gone in to hypothetical discussions about something that really doesn't matter in the real world since no one is actually leaving bags in the lounges and then exiting to go on day trips to central London.
Oct 2, 2014, 3:51 am
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Best thing I've read here in ages!Seriously, anybody who thinks that leaving an item of baggage with the baggage attendants (the clue is in the name here) in an airside BA lounge is the same as leaving 'unattended' luggage somewhere is just being pedantic and stubborn IMHO.
I have little time for those who buy into the generalised security paranoia and totally overblown fear that pervades society these days (especially in the US) and sadly allows those in power to extend even greater power and control over the modern world than they enjoy already.
Oct 2, 2014, 9:36 am
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In any case, unusually for FT this thread seemed to have wandered well off the original question now and gone in to hypothetical discussions about something that really doesn't matter in the real world since no one is actually leaving bags in the lounges and then exiting to go on day trips to central London.
Oct 2, 2014, 10:45 am
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