KARFA

Landside and then south security. There is no need to go via FCC with a dub arrival. You can do it but you just end up walking a lot further and going through north security which can often be busy.

PantsFlyer

Thanks for the update

PantsFlyer

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Looks like I will be forced to go back landside.

SWMBO has left her handbag in the car boot back at the LHR hotel, and we currently at DUB!

So my 4hr connection will now be used to rush back to the hotel to retrieve it.

walmon1977

I am doing DUB-LHR-JFK at the end of next month.
I am travelling with hand luggage only and probably with mobile boarding passes. If I decide to not use flight connections and go airside via the well known short cut to connect, will I need to go through the passport and visa check before going through security?

Cymro

Yes, if travelling HBO.

KARFA

You mean at LHR T5 when you return from DUB and before your LHR-JFK flight?

On arrival at T5 you can either use the DUB arrivals corridor and exit out landside through the baggage hall, and then go airside via north or south security, or go via the flight connections route which takes you in to the flight connections area where you go via the international connections channel and up to north security.

Tbh unless you are on a very tight connection and need to make conformance (35 minutes) I suggest the landside route is better.

You will probably need a quick visa/ESTA check. There is a desk near teh entrance to South Secuirty so worth stopping to do it just in case rather then walk to the security gate, get a red light, and have to go back anyway.

You won't encounter an UKBF immigration officer by either route.

walmon1977

Yes, before my JFK flight. grabbed a nice exEU tier point run.
Connection time is 1h05 so shall see how it goes on the day (if I arrive early etc)

daftboy

Without wanting to drag this too far off course, I had a similar query around a transfer arriving from DUB into T5 and then departing T3 (on AA to LAX), with a 3h15 transit time arriving at 9am on a Sunday.

I’ve transited T5 to T3 before, but from AMS, and given that getting landside from a DUB arrival is so easy (as described above) I have been wondering whether I might be better off hopping on the HEX or Piccadilly Line to T3. My instinct would be to go landside (if only to avoid a bus around the airfield, which always feels so utterly tedious!), or do people think I would be better off heading to the Flight Connections buses and clearing transit security at T3?

Thoughts welcome!

KARFA

Why do you think the tube or HEX in a dark tunnel after having to wait to exit the UK border is less tedious than an airside transfer bus? I have done an T5 to T3 transfer recently and gone through the new FCC and security at T3. From stepping off the plane (also from AMS) at stand 517 I think to sitting in the CX lounge was 35 minutes. I think at best the landside route might just match that, and at worst take longer with a lot more walking and hassle.

corporate-wage-slave

I would say that on 98% of occasions the airside bus is faster than going landside, sometimes considerably so. The other 2% there would be only a minute or two advantage to landside (amounting to arriving at a gate near to the UK Border, empty e-gates and walking straight on to an tube/HEX just about to depart). The airside bus trip may be tedious, but it only takes 11 or 12 minutes.

daftboy

Thanks c-w-s, the airside bus is probably the more straightforward option I guess. (I have some deep-seated bus issues after a youth spent in a region not served by trains...clearly I am not over them yet! )

And Karfa, see above, I didn't say my train preference was logical...

KARFA

Fair enough Airside bus is quicker & easier, but you are right it is always good to be aware of teh other options (tube/HEX) just in case.