BA lounge access guidelines
May 8, 2020, 3:54 am
#706
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I admit I didn't look up the flight times, but was presuming EWR-LHR to be an overnight - do they do a day flight from EWR as well? If it is an overnight then technically it's on a different day, and I presume their MAN flight is not before 6am, and the quoted oneworld access wouldn't apply would it? Guess it depends on what they mean by "day of travel", when you departed or when you arrived?
However as noted we agree BA count it as same day, so all moot! Maybe it's all these days blending into one that means I can't work a calendar. Or I've had too much Speedbird!
May 8, 2020, 3:58 am
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Smart Aleck!
I admit I didn't look up the flight times, but was presuming EWR-LHR to be an overnight - do they do a day flight from EWR as well? If it is an overnight then technically it's on a different day, and I presume their MAN flight is not before 6am, and the quoted oneworld access wouldn't apply would it? Guess it depends on what they mean by "day of travel", when you departed or when you arrived?
However as noted we agree BA count it as same day, so all moot! Maybe it's all these days blending into one that means I can't work a calendar. Or I've had too much Speedbird!
I admit I didn't look up the flight times, but was presuming EWR-LHR to be an overnight - do they do a day flight from EWR as well? If it is an overnight then technically it's on a different day, and I presume their MAN flight is not before 6am, and the quoted oneworld access wouldn't apply would it? Guess it depends on what they mean by "day of travel", when you departed or when you arrived?
However as noted we agree BA count it as same day, so all moot! Maybe it's all these days blending into one that means I can't work a calendar. Or I've had too much Speedbird!
It is whether the connection itself is same day, so if you arrive from the US at 0800 and then depart to MAN at 1000 that is a same day connection.
May 8, 2020, 4:02 am
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May 8, 2020, 5:20 am
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You just go out through immigration and baggage hall to landside. Follow the signs and go up one floor - as you exit take the left track and use the lifts right in front of you.
When you are done go up to check in floor and through security to get back airside. You need to ensure you get to security no later than 35 mins before your flight's scheduled departure time.
When you are done go up to check in floor and through security to get back airside. You need to ensure you get to security no later than 35 mins before your flight's scheduled departure time.
May 8, 2020, 5:20 am
#711
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I'm going to refer you to KARFA's superb "Connecting at Heathrow" guide for all the gory details:
A Guide to Connecting at LHR T5
And specifically:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25935798-post8.html
In brief my autopilot route is: Through the e-gates at immigration, down the escalator on the left side, past baggage carousels to exit landside, ignore the HEX hawkers, through the tiny "duty free", small double back to the lift and up to Floor 1.....
The one important caveat - you must make conformance, i.e. scan your onward boarding pass at T-35, so 35 minutes before your MAN flight departs or you will be offloaded. So if you are tight on time, go the conventional connections route as that gives you the opportunity to scan it more promptly. If you go landside to Arrivals, don't forget you need to be back airside in time, so that route is often only recommended when you have a more relaxed connection. In practice, the real frequent fliers here probably have it down to the minute knowing when to use what route.
ETA: Beaten to it. Oh well, he did write the book on it
A Guide to Connecting at LHR T5
And specifically:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25935798-post8.html
In brief my autopilot route is: Through the e-gates at immigration, down the escalator on the left side, past baggage carousels to exit landside, ignore the HEX hawkers
, through the tiny "duty free", small double back to the lift and up to Floor 1.....The one important caveat - you must make conformance, i.e. scan your onward boarding pass at T-35, so 35 minutes before your MAN flight departs or you will be offloaded. So if you are tight on time, go the conventional connections route as that gives you the opportunity to scan it more promptly. If you go landside to Arrivals, don't forget you need to be back airside in time, so that route is often only recommended when you have a more relaxed connection. In practice, the real frequent fliers here probably have it down to the minute knowing when to use what route.
ETA: Beaten to it. Oh well, he did write the book on it
May 8, 2020, 5:21 am
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The arrivals lounge is landside in T5, you need to clear UK border and when you come into the arrival hall you go up a level to the arrivals lounge.
If I have a relatively short connection then I do not bother with the arrivals lounge.
If I have a relatively short connection then I do not bother with the arrivals lounge.
Jul 3, 2020, 11:12 am
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You can guest them even if they are on a different booking, or different flight (but must be a oneworld flight)
Jul 3, 2020, 11:13 am
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Jul 3, 2020, 11:21 am
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Jul 3, 2020, 11:22 am
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That's OK. Your guest doesn't even have to be in the Executive Club....
(They only have to be travelling on a oneworld flight, so in normal times when T3 was operating you could e.g. guest someone into any of the oneworld F lounges in T3 if they flying say Finnair, while you were flying BA)
(They only have to be travelling on a oneworld flight, so in normal times when T3 was operating you could e.g. guest someone into any of the oneworld F lounges in T3 if they flying say Finnair, while you were flying BA)
Jul 3, 2020, 1:08 pm
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That's OK. Your guest doesn't even have to be in the Executive Club....
(They only have to be travelling on a oneworld flight, so in normal times when T3 was operating you could e.g. guest someone into any of the oneworld F lounges in T3 if they flying say Finnair, while you were flying BA)
(They only have to be travelling on a oneworld flight, so in normal times when T3 was operating you could e.g. guest someone into any of the oneworld F lounges in T3 if they flying say Finnair, while you were flying BA)