BOH

Thanks, yeah she landed at 23:40 local time....on the Polderbaan runway so that added 15 minutes taxiing time.grrrr. She says she has met a few others her age also from the Uni on the flight so they all catching the train together into Amsterdam CS. Dad is relieved ^

27Liam

Glad to hear your daughter is safe and well BOH with a relatively happy ending.

Final update from me is that I cut my losses and went home. Just in the door and I an see on FR24 that the flight was sat at the gate for c 30mins and is approaching AMS now. Right call for me I think.

One last nugget of wisdom - escaping t5 airside, the advice from most lounge staff seems to be to get the train to c gates and stay on it to bring you back to immigration. I thought this was a bit fishy (since they do a security check to clear the train) so walked back to a gates via the underground passageway and declared myself to CS. Big mistake - they only facilitate airside exits once an hour. Not sure why as it just involved a BA agent walking us down through one of the gates and manually letting us onto on arrivals track. Anyway, wish I had tried the train and argued my case. Could have been much quicker.

Thanks again to to all here for their advice on an unpleasant situation and thumbs up to all BA ground crew tioday. Very pleasant and eager to help in my hour of need!

flatlander

BA's scheduled journey time is gate to gate and allows for landing at the farthest runway. Landing on the Polderbaan didn't "add time".

Tiger_lily

madfish

crazyarmadillo

In case anyone else is in the same situation re having to wait the'hour' to be escorted out from T5, there is a thread somewhere about it on BAFt.

I think you just need to get yourself to c gates,via the transit and stay on the transit. The customers will then get off for their flights and you just stay on and then you head back to the border and then landside.

Never had a need to do this, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but just in case others here may need to do so in future for such a delay, like the OP.

KARFA

BOH

It does add time when the flight is running late because you would arrive 10-15 minutes earlier at the gate if not landing on the Polderbaan. Bear in mind the flight she was on was running 3 hours late so it did "add" extra time

KARFA

No one denies it takes longer to taxi from there, I have plenty of experience of it and flatlander more so. However, landing on 18R is pretty much expected coming from the UK and therefore factored in to the block time, so in terms of the block time it shouldn't represent an additional delay over what is already planned - although it doesn't mean it's not annoying especially when landing nearly at midnight