adrianlondon

They have those already, but many people in this thread have wanted them replaced with urinals

wyvern

There are some great ideas here. From my experience, T5C could do with a lounge, the check-in desk and bag drop areas don't seem to work very well for those without status, and the bus gates need improving (I like the idea of heated walkways at the side to add some more direct access gates). Connections security needs a re-think - the ideas to let all desks be used for all destination and look at which origin airports can be 'trusted' to negate the need for screening would help. Arrivals passport control could do with more e-gates being in use at a time (especially when the eligibility is widened). A decent bookshop would be good, as would turning down the heating.

However my first preference would be to remove conformance.

mikeijay

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jrfsp320

Have BA given any further details on the lounge refurbishments at LHR? As always they take years to do anything. For their main hub airport the lounges are terrible, arguably the worst lounges at LHR.

While i realise little can be done to the hardware in the short term, at least make an effort to ensure the lounge is kept clean and the power points work. The BA lounge feel as premium as a BP wild bean cafe. I was much more impressed by the Iberia Velázquez lounge which doesnt even claim to be a First level lounge. It was impeccably clean with for a start.

Dover2Golf

How about stairs from arrivals up to the car parks, I prefer stairs to lifts and as others have said, the wait for the lifts can be interminable at busy times. I would prefer to walk.

internetplumber

Going off on a bit of a tangent, but out of curiosity how would that work? To prevent the possibility of 'tainting' trusted arrivals you'd need to segregate arrivals from the trusted origins, which potentially then means an even greater chance of gate congestion for arriving aircraft because the gates are carved up into those for trusted origins and those for untrusted origins. Or you need to have two parallel arrival paths through the terminal, one trusted and one untrusted, and set the doors appropriately for each arrival?

KARFA

there already are stairs if you want to use them to go up and down for the multi-storey tho? not that i have used the stairs myself

VFRonTop

Not that it would ever happen, but you could keep the "trusted" flights clean by decanting all arriving passengers into the departure lounge and having an exit-only pathway to the arrivals hall/passport control for non-connecting passengers to enter the UK and proceed to baggage claim.

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V800

Extend the tunnel to T3 and replace the train with some of those high speed travelators that they have in Toronto Pearson.

aidy

they have travelators in the tunnel (-4 not -2) but they are not the YYZ speed ones

redrob

There's no way that conformance will ever be removed as it has led to such significant improvements in overall punctuality over the years. Among other benefits, without it, BA would have no way of knowing where in the terminal any transfer passengers were, or even IF they were in the airport at all, and so the ability to take early decisions to offload any baggage would therefore pretty much disappear...

JAXBA

While I don't mind conformance personally, they could still require scanning in at entry to security, they just turn off the time limit yet keep the same 'locating' function.

navylad