security or not on connection?
Apr 27, 2022, 1:49 pm
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as immigration and connections are next to each other you should easily get a sense of how busy either route is on the day to compare.
Apr 27, 2022, 1:54 pm
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True, but there's no way of knowing how busy landside security is. Immigration could be empty and the Fast Track line being held at the bottom of the escalators, only for landside security to be twice as busy. I'll work on the same premise that I do when picking any other queue - no matter which one I pick, the other one will move faster so best to not fret about it!
Apr 27, 2022, 4:01 pm
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On a T5 DUB - INT connection, or I guess INT - INT, if you chose to go via Flight Connections is there a separate security area, or do you get funnelled up to North / South security?
Apr 27, 2022, 4:08 pm
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A question if it's ok, I have a 1:45 T5-T5 INTL-INTL connection next month, I've always gone landside before, but never with so little time.
With not being able to use the egates anymore, and sub 2 hours am I best following the airside connections route? I'm kind of hoping my incoming flight comes into B then I can use B security.
With not being able to use the egates anymore, and sub 2 hours am I best following the airside connections route? I'm kind of hoping my incoming flight comes into B then I can use B security.
Apr 27, 2022, 4:18 pm
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Hi
With 1hr 45min you have plenty of time as the minimum connection time is 1hr
No need for passport control just a security check ( an arrival at b gates would be ideal)
I would go flight connections ( what passport do you hold?
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With 1hr 45min you have plenty of time as the minimum connection time is 1hr
No need for passport control just a security check ( an arrival at b gates would be ideal)
I would go flight connections ( what passport do you hold?
regards
Tbs
Apr 27, 2022, 4:24 pm
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If it still worked I would probably go landside without a second thought (I always have done before).
Rejection, then a queue to chat to border force, then explaining to them what I'm doing before being allowed into the UK, and back upstairs to the F wing all eats into a relatively short connection.
Apr 27, 2022, 4:24 pm
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Apr 27, 2022, 4:38 pm
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you get funnelled up to north & south security. usually fast track goes up to north, normal track to south. once up there, the people coming from connections tend to be kept in separate lanes from those coming from landside.
Apr 27, 2022, 6:55 pm
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There is no requirement to re-do security on a purely UK trip, so NCL to anywhere at T5 means no security. NCL to anywhere at T3 does mean security due to the mixing with other passengers. There is always a security check after arriving outside the UK, that includes Dublin, so you are best to go landside at T5 from DUB and then go through main security there from landside.
When Virgin ran Little Red (UK domestics) they used to put a bus on taking passengers arriving from UK destinations direct to T3 skipping security (Little Red had to use T2 as T3 can't handle domestic flights).
Apr 28, 2022, 2:05 am
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Before T5 opened I never connected in LHR (anything starting inthe UK regions I used KLM). I did many point to point domestics from T1 on BA and BD but I can't recall seeing signs for flight connections. So back in the T1 days was there a flight connections route from domestic - T1 international that skipped security or is that another benefit T5 provided us?
Apr 28, 2022, 2:41 am
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Hi
When I connected dom to intl at t1 I do not recall going through security again at lhr so there must have been a way.
I do recall a long overhead passage way over the departures lounge enroute to the bus to t4 ( in those days) with security at t4
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When I connected dom to intl at t1 I do not recall going through security again at lhr so there must have been a way.
I do recall a long overhead passage way over the departures lounge enroute to the bus to t4 ( in those days) with security at t4
regards
Tbs