Cowtown77

Ah good to know. I've never had time to use it before and was unaware of the logistics. Thanks for the heads up.

Exsilver

Can someone please confirm that my understanding is correct for an upcoming trip. When I return from Singapore in First, with an onward connection to EDI in Club, I should be allowed access to the CCR on arrival at LHR, is this correct?

Tobias-UK

Yes.

Exsilver

Thank you.

FlyingWelshie

I am thinking of booking a flight ABZ to BHX with Loganair. If booked with BA with a BA flight number will I be granted access to the BA lounge at ABZ as a BAEC Gold?

Thanks

KARFA

yes, BA gold card on a BA 125-... issued ticket, and on a BA codeshare, will get access to the BA lounge.

zen100

I thought it was the same stuff, just that the lounge host would go into the main buffet area (via a back door), pick up a plate and select the items you had chosen, before returning to the CCR breakfast room. I have seen lounge hosts do this multiple times

Travel-Quinten

This one is for the LHR experts

- Arriving on May 8th from JFK on AA in first & connecting 10 hours later to an IB flight on same booking in business. It seems both flights are scheduled to/from T5.
- I wish to visit the CX lounge in T3, so I plan to buy a ticket on a BA flight that leaves from T3 that afternoon.

The question is: Can I be checked in for 2 flights leaving LHR on the same day (the evening IB flight & afternoon BA flight)? Or does LHR/the IAG system not allow the same passenger to leave the airport twice on a same day? And does the CX lounge actually care at wich terminal I arrived/depart from?

Thanks!

joeri

Interesting question!

KARFA

Yes, tbh it isn't necessary to do that. When you arrive in to T5 you can just use the airside buses to go to T3 anyway and go through security to use the lounges there. You do not need a T3 flight bp to go through connections.

Just make sure you leave plenty of time to head back to the airside buses and know hpw to do it, and ensure you get to T5 well before the flight is scheduled to depart.

Travel-Quinten

Thanks! I thought you can only enter the terminal your flight leaves from, not another terminal.

KARFA

That is certainly true of T5, so you cannot enter the airside departures area of T5 without a bp for a flight departing T5. However, it isn't true of T3 and T2.

Travel-Quinten

Fantastic, thanks for your help!

joeri

Are you sure about this? A Heathrow chat agent told me I couldn't...

Quote chat:
Hi there! I have a flight from T5, but I'd like to use the lounge in T3. Is it possible to enter T3 (with a T5 boarding pass)? Thanks!

Heathrow Airport

Good morning, you will not be able to use the lounge, unless it is before security.

You sent

Do you mean that is necessary to have a T3 boardingpass to enter the departures area of T3. Even when I’m already through security and all in T5 (and then take the airside bus)?

Heathrow Airport

You can't move airside when you are passed security before you have taken a flight, to use a lounge.

scottishpoet

Yes you can access T3 departures via the transit route without a T3 boarding pass. You may get a question when you get to security but you can say you came for the shops and the lounges. The big trick is not to go through T5 security into the departure area after you get off your flight that has just arrived in T5

You cannot enter T5 without a T5 boarding pass.

reading the response from the heathrow chat, what you are trying to do may be a little different from that. You seem to want to clear security in T5 and then go to the transit bus to T3. All very possible but you will have problems when you get back to T5 as you will be marked as already having entered t5.

This can be resolved but may take some time.

It also means taking the train out from T5A to T5C on the departure flow and then coming aback into T5A from T5C on the arrivals flow to get to the transit bus.

I can understand why the chat said you cannot do it. it will not be a behaviour that they want to encourage