Dec 30, 2015, 9:51 am
Last edit by: KARFA
Welcome to this guide. If you are arriving at LHR and connecting to, from, or within T5 than this guide should help provide some practical information about how your connection will work. There are a number of types of connections which you may end up doing at T5 and hopefully all should be covered in this guide.
- General Layout of LHR and T5 - including information on underground walkways
- Arriving and Departing Gate Information
- Diagram of FCC
- Diagram of DUB Arrivals Area
- Arriving from the UK - Connections and Arrivals
- Arriving from DUB - Connections and Arrivals
- Arriving on an International Flight (not inc. DUB) - Connections and Arrivals
- T5B to T5B Connections, T5C to T5C Connections, and T5B to T2/3/4 Connections
- T2/3/4 to T5 Connections
- Arriving at T5 and Crossing the UK Border at T2/3/4, Connecting to an AA Flight Departing From T3, Checked Bags, Connections to LCY/LGW Flights, Duty Free
- New FCC in LHR T3 (July 2018)
A Guide to Connecting at LHR T5
May 8, 2024, 9:24 pm
#1127
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Have an upcoming 1 hr 20 minute connection, INT T5 to INT (T5A I believe from checking previous flights of the same number, understand Term 5/A/B/C not guaranteed). Arriving to LHR on Monday morning around 7AM. How have connection security waits been on Monday mornings?
Oneworld Emerald flying in J, non-EU/UK citizen. Could also go landside and through via the First Wing but am hoping to just stay airside barring a throng of people crowding the connection checkpoint. Will not checking bags.
Oneworld Emerald flying in J, non-EU/UK citizen. Could also go landside and through via the First Wing but am hoping to just stay airside barring a throng of people crowding the connection checkpoint. Will not checking bags.
May 9, 2024, 12:38 am
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Have an upcoming 1 hr 20 minute connection, INT T5 to INT (T5A I believe from checking previous flights of the same number, understand Term 5/A/B/C not guaranteed). Arriving to LHR on Monday morning around 7AM. How have connection security waits been on Monday mornings?
Oneworld Emerald flying in J, non-EU/UK citizen. Could also go landside and through via the First Wing but am hoping to just stay airside barring a throng of people crowding the connection checkpoint. Will not checking bags.
Oneworld Emerald flying in J, non-EU/UK citizen. Could also go landside and through via the First Wing but am hoping to just stay airside barring a throng of people crowding the connection checkpoint. Will not checking bags.
Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland or the USA ?
If so you can also use the e-gates and I would definitely consider the landside route in that situation. You can see if theres a backlog before committing.
If not eligible for e-gates then I would just
stick with the connections route.
May 9, 2024, 12:56 am
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I would add that if you are on time or early, able to use the e-gates (or the non EEA area looks empty) then going landside will be a bit faster, a bit more comfortable and get you reasonably directly into the First lounge. If any of those "if" statements does not apply then you best go via Flight Connections. Under 1 hour then I would only go via Flight Connections regardless.
May 12, 2024, 8:45 am
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Yes we are USA citizens, did not know that we were also eligible for the e-gates! Will check lines upon arrival but it would be "cool" to use the First Wing entrance as we have not originated from LHR or used it before. Thanks all.
May 15, 2024, 1:30 pm
#1131
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When choosing between Flight Connections at T5, and going landside and then into the First Wing, is it possible to scope out the Flight Connections security line, and then bail out to immigration if the lines look too long? Or is one committed to Flight Connections by the time one can see the security lines?
Thanks
Thanks
May 15, 2024, 1:36 pm
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When choosing between Flight Connections at T5, and going landside and then into the First Wing, is it possible to scope out the Flight Connections security line, and then bail out to immigration if the lines look too long? Or is one committed to Flight Connections by the time one can see the security lines?
May 18, 2024, 4:12 am
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The unofficial - and often quicker - method is to use the transit to T5C and stay on when it returns to T5A. This takes you into the arrivals stream so you have to go through passport control, but if the e-gates are working and you're eligible to use them, you'll probably still save time.
May 18, 2024, 4:14 am
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Be aware that when you return, the boarding pass for the flight you used to get airside will consider you to be airside and you will not be able to enter security until this is addressed
May 19, 2024, 10:51 am
#1136
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I'm meeting a friend at T5 from BA 435 AMS-LHR, arriving at 1530 as we both connect to VS25 LHR-JFK at 2005. Both legs HBO only, seperate tickets.
4 hours should be more than enough time for any option, but would it be more convenient to get him to take the flight connections bus to T3 (and meet him there) rather than him go landside at T5?
Also, does T3 FCC have the new scanners?
4 hours should be more than enough time for any option, but would it be more convenient to get him to take the flight connections bus to T3 (and meet him there) rather than him go landside at T5?
Also, does T3 FCC have the new scanners?
Last edited by fusionblue; May 19, 2024 at 11:26 am
May 19, 2024, 10:58 am
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if you aren't connecting then your only options to meet him is if he goes landside at T5 to meet there, and you both go to T3 together, or you both make your own way to T3 and meet once both airside.
T3 FT is fully new scanners now. T3 FCC has some new scanners at the far end, and older ones at the near end. it just depends on the day which ones you end up using.
T3 FT is fully new scanners now. T3 FCC has some new scanners at the far end, and older ones at the near end. it just depends on the day which ones you end up using.
May 22, 2024, 11:24 am
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So our flight landed 20 minutes late, held for 10 minutes outside of the gate for the automated parking guidance machine to be turned on...we finally deplaned at 735 with a 0800 gate closure time for our next flight (arrived to T5B next flight from T5A).
Fortunately Fast Track was virtually empty - and we made our connection with ~5 minutes to spare - wasn't timing it too diligently but this all happened in about 20 minutes. Some really fast walking was definitely involved! Thank you to those who contributed in this thread, we really didn't want to wait 9 hours in LHR for the next direct flight!
Fortunately Fast Track was virtually empty - and we made our connection with ~5 minutes to spare - wasn't timing it too diligently but this all happened in about 20 minutes. Some really fast walking was definitely involved! Thank you to those who contributed in this thread, we really didn't want to wait 9 hours in LHR for the next direct flight!