Best T3 OneWorld Lounge
Aug 17, 22, 5:38 pm - Wikipost
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This gives the lounges options available for BA passengers departing from LHR T3. If you flight is departing from T3 you will not have access to the T5 lounges - including Concorde Room - since you must have a same-day T5 boarding pass to get airside in T5. If your flight is from T3, then you need to use the T3 lounges, your boarding pass will not work in T5. As it happens there is a good range of lounges available in T3, details below.
For breakfast options for BA Gold / Emerald / First travellers, there is a photo guide in post 291, click here. Note the Qantas lounge only opens at 08:00 hrs. LHR Terminal 3 First Class Lounges    https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...e-reviews.html LHR Terminal 3 Business Class Lounges     
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Jun 24, 22, 4:52 am
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Originally Posted by prof
In fairness to Americans, the allowance for liquids in the US is more than what’s allowed in the UK: still 100 ml per bottle, but you can take more (up to a quart bag), whereas in the UK you have to fit all your liquids in a tiny sandwich bag, which they also want to see sealed tight.
Jun 24, 22, 9:31 am
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
The rule is pretty much identical on both sides of the Atlantic. The bag size is basically the same in the US and the UK: a US quart = 946 ml.
Jun 24, 22, 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by sau54
There has to be a better way of screening bags. The rules seemed to have gotten worse since 9/11. First shoes, then liquid, and then tablets/laptops. I read the new CT scanners will help, but they're slower. I think I saw them at HEL. It's been more than two decades since 9/11 and we have to find a better way of doing security screening. Lots of time wasted at security instead of being spent at the lounge where I can relax, eat, and work.
Jun 24, 22, 9:39 am
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Originally Posted by Radiation Station
CT scanners are much faster! They work really well at HEL and AMS.
Jun 24, 22, 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by sau54
I was also at AMS last week and I don't remember seeing the CT scanners. I think I read in the news that the CT scanners were slower, but given the chaos at airports these days, I don't pay very close attention. HEL was definitely better than LHR. Since I was flying AY in J, I didn't have to line up to get to the second floor for departure. I just got there and immediately head towards priority security. I also didn't have to take anything out of my bag.
HEL is such a great airport, I’ve really enjoying flying from there a couple of times this month. As you say, priority security is a dream there.
Jun 24, 22, 9:45 am
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Originally Posted by sau54
I was also at AMS last week and I don't remember seeing the CT scanners. I think I read in the news that the CT scanners were slower, but given the chaos at airports these days, I don't pay very close attention. HEL was definitely better than LHR. Since I was flying AY in J, I didn't have to line up to get to the second floor for departure. I just got there and immediately head towards priority security. I also didn't have to take anything out of my bag.
Jun 24, 22, 9:45 am
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Originally Posted by Radiation Station
I suppose it might take more time to look at each bag as it passes through, but I think they save a lot of time because people can just dump their bags and walk through. There’s always a load of people who sleep walk their way to security and then seem surprised when they have to take liquids out etc.
HEL is such a great airport, I’ve really enjoying flying from there a couple of times this month. As you say, priority security is a dream there.
HEL is such a great airport, I’ve really enjoying flying from there a couple of times this month. As you say, priority security is a dream there.
Hopefully, the days of us taking out our shoes, laptops, and liquid will be in the distant memory with these new CT scanners.
Originally Posted by KARFA
You didn’t have to take anything out of the bag as they are all CT scanners at AMS now.
You're right, I don't remember having to take my camera out of the bag at AMS while I had to do that at LHR! When is LHR getting CT scanners?
Jun 24, 22, 11:28 am
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Can we refocus the discussion on the lounges at LHR Terminal 3 please. There is plenty of room on FT to chat about security scanning but this really isn’t the best thread for that.
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Jun 24, 22, 2:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Radiation Station
I suppose it might take more time to look at each bag as it passes through, but I think they save a lot of time because people can just dump their bags and walk through.
Jun 25, 22, 9:01 am
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Originally Posted by LAX/HKG
What about the J lounges? Which one in T3 is the best?
of weeks ago on a short BA hop to Pisa.
The BA lounge was horrific in T3. It was rammed and felt like you were just sat in the departure hall.
The Qantas lounge was nice but I couldn’t get my head around what the food offer was.
Headed back to the Cathay Pacific lounge, reached in one of their lovely recliner arm chairs with foot stool and views across the field. Food delicious. Bar offer and service great.
Jun 25, 22, 10:55 am
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Originally Posted by IanG84
I’d say Cathay Pacific Business lounge, hands down. Did a bit of a tour a couple
of weeks ago on a short BA hop to Pisa.
The BA lounge was horrific in T3. It was rammed and felt like you were just sat in the departure hall.
The Qantas lounge was nice but I couldn’t get my head around what the food offer was.
Headed back to the Cathay Pacific lounge, reached in one of their lovely recliner arm chairs with foot stool and views across the field. Food delicious. Bar offer and service great.
of weeks ago on a short BA hop to Pisa.
The BA lounge was horrific in T3. It was rammed and felt like you were just sat in the departure hall.
The Qantas lounge was nice but I couldn’t get my head around what the food offer was.
Headed back to the Cathay Pacific lounge, reached in one of their lovely recliner arm chairs with foot stool and views across the field. Food delicious. Bar offer and service great.
Jun 28, 22, 4:38 am
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Is this constant promotion of the one world T3 lounges (hfp, tlfl, flyertalk etc etc) likely to kill the golden goose, lots more people doing lounge crawls these days compared with just a few years back. Are BA on the hook to pay for entry into every lounge people hop to from?
https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/0...in-terminal-5/
"Is British Airways desperately trying to stop its passengers running up huge bills by visiting the superior Cathay Pacific and Qantas lounges in Terminal 3?!"
Perhaps Hfp is just reading too much into this, but with Hfp, TFl and other bloggers (and this thread) promoting the T3 lounge access it could be true...
Originally Posted by EDDLEGLL
I highly doubt it’s a big issue at all - the vast majority of travellers have no idea.
Only this morning I told a fellow gold card holder in the office about how excited I was to be finally flying to HEL again, “because it’s T3” and she had no idea. Even after telling her about the “amazing world of CX F and QF” she’s still not convinced and will likely end up in BA GF again on her next trip.
The one thing that might increase awareness is the fact that the BA App no longer shows you which lounge to use, but instead redirects you to the oneworld lounge finder where access rules are prominently displayed.
Only this morning I told a fellow gold card holder in the office about how excited I was to be finally flying to HEL again, “because it’s T3” and she had no idea. Even after telling her about the “amazing world of CX F and QF” she’s still not convinced and will likely end up in BA GF again on her next trip.
The one thing that might increase awareness is the fact that the BA App no longer shows you which lounge to use, but instead redirects you to the oneworld lounge finder where access rules are prominently displayed.
Originally Posted by SW7London
Same experience, very frequent flyers who are BA Gold completely unaware they can use other Oneworld lounges!
Interesting that the BA app now directs you to the Oneworld lounge finder - I would have thought BA would be charged each time one of their passengers enters the CX/QF lounges at T3, and for obvious reasons they would rather those passengers in their own BA lounges as there is no additional cash outlay. Be interesting to see how long the BA App stays this way!
Interesting that the BA app now directs you to the Oneworld lounge finder - I would have thought BA would be charged each time one of their passengers enters the CX/QF lounges at T3, and for obvious reasons they would rather those passengers in their own BA lounges as there is no additional cash outlay. Be interesting to see how long the BA App stays this way!
"Is British Airways desperately trying to stop its passengers running up huge bills by visiting the superior Cathay Pacific and Qantas lounges in Terminal 3?!"
Perhaps Hfp is just reading too much into this, but with Hfp, TFl and other bloggers (and this thread) promoting the T3 lounge access it could be true...
Jun 28, 22, 4:46 am
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I can only assume that line is said very much tongue in cheek. It is not a realistic reason for a mass terminal move of BA routes with two weeks notice in the middle of the S22 season.
Jun 28, 22, 5:20 am
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Originally Posted by KARFA
I can only assume that line is said very much tongue in cheek. It is not a realistic reason for a mass terminal move of BA routes with two weeks notice in the middle of the S22 season.
