Cape Town from LHR. Which terminal?
Mar 13, 2022, 1:03 pm
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Cape Town from LHR. Which terminal?
Currently Cape Town departures are scheduled to leave from T5. Historically I believe were from T3. Is anyone able to clarify if they were from T3 just before the pandemic or whether they had moved back to T5 for longer, before the pandemic?
I'm looking to book MAD->LHR->CPT return flights for November (saves about £1600pp in J). Currently Iberia is letting me book a transfer at T5 of exactly 1 hour, which is tight but should be doable. However if there's a risk the CPT flight gets moved to T3 then I'll go for a longer transfer.
Thanks for your help.
I'm looking to book MAD->LHR->CPT return flights for November (saves about £1600pp in J). Currently Iberia is letting me book a transfer at T5 of exactly 1 hour, which is tight but should be doable. However if there's a risk the CPT flight gets moved to T3 then I'll go for a longer transfer.
Thanks for your help.
Mar 13, 2022, 1:18 pm
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You might want to watch this thread.
List of BA flights from T3
BA has already announced a lot of moves for summer but iirc CPT has not been among them as is still T5.
List of BA flights from T3
BA has already announced a lot of moves for summer but iirc CPT has not been among them as is still T5.
Mar 13, 2022, 3:27 pm
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I might be wrong, but I think CPT swapped from T5 to T3 after Virgin stopped the CPT route. Now that Virgin will be returning to CPT, BA might think there's a competitive advantage with CPT from T5?
Post-Covid, CPT must relatively be more important to BA than it was pre-Covid: it's higher-yielding due to capacity cut from a 747 to a 777, and if business travel remains suppressed, the premium leisure market becomes more important. All reasons for it to stay in T5.
Post-Covid, CPT must relatively be more important to BA than it was pre-Covid: it's higher-yielding due to capacity cut from a 747 to a 777, and if business travel remains suppressed, the premium leisure market becomes more important. All reasons for it to stay in T5.
Mar 14, 2022, 3:34 am
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If LHR-CPT is moved to T3, and all scheduled times remain the same, then your connection will become illegal and you will get rebooked then (and it'll almost certainly just be a case of rebooking the MAD-LHR to an earlier flight). So if you've got reasons for picking and being happy with a 60-minute connection T5-T5, then why not just book it and see what happens?
Mar 14, 2022, 4:40 am
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If LHR-CPT is moved to T3, and all scheduled times remain the same, then your connection will become illegal and you will get rebooked then (and it'll almost certainly just be a case of rebooking the MAD-LHR to an earlier flight). So if you've got reasons for picking and being happy with a 60-minute connection T5-T5, then why not just book it and see what happens?
With schedules as they are and unpredictable equipment changes 8 months in advance, I think I'll play it safer and opt for the just under 2h transfer instead.