First Wing at T5
Dec 10, 2016, 5:36 pm
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Dec 11, 2016, 3:38 am
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The new First Wing has been accurately written up by the travel media in the thread linked. It's more than just a doorway, if you look at the area concerned, best done from the smokers' box by drop off parking, it's quite a chunk of the building. The current First check in area will "flow" through a curved channel around to some fairly spacious and open security lanes, compared to the rather boxed in South Fast Track. First Lounge entry and conformance will effectively be combined, so it's one stage less than now.
Dec 11, 2016, 3:49 am
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Dec 11, 2016, 3:54 am
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Dec 11, 2016, 4:12 am
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Dec 11, 2016, 4:21 am
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Dec 11, 2016, 4:37 am
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Dec 11, 2016, 4:42 am
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There's already a door, albeit it's for Staff Only, and I thought that was where the entrance was going to be?
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Dec 11, 2016, 5:22 am
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Mostly this is using office and storage space, so there is now a false partition along the First check-in area back wall, work started many months ago, mainly at night. You can see the scale of this from the smokers' shelter referenced above. I imagine there will be one night when the partition will come down, and maybe a day or two of slightly disrupted operations around this period, but I can't see any major outage.
Dec 11, 2016, 5:23 am
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Confused...
Great to see these planned improvements but still confused whether (for a real life example) Gold + Silver plus 2 kids will be able to use the new facility? Am I misreading or does the post security corridor open directly into GF?
Dec 11, 2016, 5:27 am
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It opens into Flounge directiy, and unless I've misunderstood this, only those allowed to use Flounge or CCR can use the facility. So you'll have to select your favourite offspring and send the others to South Fast track. Which may sound harsh, but it's the same as the current arrangements, minus all those Goldies currently cluttering up South Security.