Not booking luggage to final destination - question?
Mar 26, 2019, 1:49 pm
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This is wrong, I recently had a CPH to LHR to SEA routing which had me land at T5 and Leave at T5. If you go into Terminal 5 before transferring to terminal 3 you will not be marked ready to fly and be able to access the concorde lounge. Once you enter terminal 3 you are marked ready to fly and cannot leave.
I was able to do the reverse upon landing at T5 I immediately transferred to T3 to check out the Cathay and Qantas Lounges, I then was able to transfer back to T5 without any issue. Just make sure to leave sufficient time for the bus transfer.
I was able to do the reverse upon landing at T5 I immediately transferred to T3 to check out the Cathay and Qantas Lounges, I then was able to transfer back to T5 without any issue. Just make sure to leave sufficient time for the bus transfer.
what has been done sometimes is on arriving at T5 from another flight people will go to t3 to access to the lounges there before departing T5. Not something I would recommend due to timing and general faff tbh. T3 does not have ready to fly.
Mar 26, 2019, 1:50 pm
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This is wrong, I recently had a CPH to LHR to SEA routing which had me land at T5 and Leave at T5. If you go into Terminal 5 before transferring to terminal 3 you will not be marked ready to fly and be able to access the concorde lounge. Once you enter terminal 3 you are marked ready to fly and cannot leave.
I was able to do the reverse upon landing at T5 I immediately transferred to T3 to check out the Cathay and Qantas Lounges, I then was able to transfer back to T5 without any issue. Just make sure to leave sufficient time for the bus transfer.
I was able to do the reverse upon landing at T5 I immediately transferred to T3 to check out the Cathay and Qantas Lounges, I then was able to transfer back to T5 without any issue. Just make sure to leave sufficient time for the bus transfer.
After coming off the Glasgow flight they won't be able to get airside Terminal 5 because they will have no valid BP for a T5 departure to present at the Flight Connections check, and at that point they will be directed to T3.
Mar 26, 2019, 5:36 pm
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Apparently this is OW policy. February 2019. MCT-DOH-LGW-MLA (single ticket). MCT-DOH-LGW on QR J; LGW-MLA on BA J. Overnight at LGW. Checking in at MCT with very pleasant agent. Asked her to check my bag only to LGW and I'd recheck it the following morning. She tried, but was unable to do so due to OW policy. Needless to say, my bag didn't make it to MLA for another 24 hours.
Mar 26, 2019, 5:51 pm
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what BertieBager noted was entirely correct, with an onward bp for a flight departing from t3 you can’t access the airside departures area in T5 where the ccr is - unless you have some significant manual intervention from ba.
what has been done sometimes is on arriving at T5 from another flight people will go to t3 to access to the lounges there before departing T5. Not something I would recommend due to timing and general faff tbh. T3 does not have ready to fly.
Mar 26, 2019, 6:22 pm
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Mar 26, 2019, 9:55 pm
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Mar 26, 2019, 10:53 pm
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Apparently this is OW policy. February 2019. MCT-DOH-LGW-MLA (single ticket). MCT-DOH-LGW on QR J; LGW-MLA on BA J. Overnight at LGW. Checking in at MCT with very pleasant agent. Asked her to check my bag only to LGW and I'd recheck it the following morning. She tried, but was unable to do so due to OW policy. Needless to say, my bag didn't make it to MLA for another 24 hours.
Mar 26, 2019, 10:59 pm
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Oh I always thought this message was warning people not to drop the last leg of an ex-EU.
Mar 26, 2019, 11:36 pm
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Mar 27, 2019, 2:56 am
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Hmmm, well I had no issue doing it in the reverse. I was able to go from T5 to T3 just to access lounges. I landed at T5 took a transfer bus to T3. When my boarding pass was checked at T3 they said make sure you give yourself enough time to get back to T5 and let me into T3.
However, as you note yourself this is the reverse of what the OP needs to do and just because you can do it in one 'direction' does not automatically mean you can successfully do it in reverse - you cannot. The systems are different. T5 uses "Ready to Fly" and a regular passenger will not pass the checks without a valid T5 boarding pass and so they cannot get to the departure lounges, including the CCR.
This issue has cropped up before (and I had a personal interest in it as for Mrs BertieB's first First, we booked EDI-LHR-YVR), and has been discussed elsewhere on the forum. For one fairly recent example see here:
Using T5 when departing from T3
You may note the final post by Vasco Pridat where they report successfully doing what you did - i.e. using the T3 lounges on a T5 layover, but that they are denied access to T5 without a valid T5 boarding pass, which is the situation the OP will find themselves in on the outbound flight to MIA.
Hope that helps to clarify matters.
Mar 27, 2019, 7:18 am
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