Wozza2404

My BUD flights actually straddle this date - I'm still outbound from T3 but I'll fly back into T5.

I knew there was a reason I buy flexible parking!

AirbusA350

Quite a few people concerned about parking, but surely with a multitude of transport options between T3 - T5, most of which are free, I don't see why the heightened aggro and anxiety surrounding this.

IkarosBOS

Have two BA 275 flights coming up in July and while the CX First lounge is always pleasant, avoiding a bus and getting Blue Label and LPGS are quite a tradeoff!

travelsbyplane

Iberia flights between LHR and MAD on 15 July (for example) are now showing as T3.

MH1981

I wouldn't say it's aggro or anxiety in my case. More so the fact I, and likely many more people, paid a premium for the convenience of short stay parking at T3 and an easy 2 minute walk to/from check in/arrivals. This is now a 20-30 min commute or an additional £80 (for me) to move it to T5. Nothing major but worthy of a minor moan

Buster CT1K

So weird to have so many rumors floating around July 12 and short notice moves by AA and BA, among others.

MaxFlyer

To save money, do we think BA could close its T3 lounge and just pay for passengers to use one of the other OW lounges instead?

layz

Let's hope not! It's better that the other lounge options remain semi-secret as they can sometimes get too busy as it is. I could see BA closing the F section of the lounge or maybe Iberia start running it now they've been confirmed to move there (assuming their new ground handling partners have enough staff to run it). Iberia have run a lounge at LHR before, in the old T2.

Then again the best thing to happen (assuming BA anticipate moving more flights back there when things pick up) would be to use this time to refurbish the lounges and get them up to a level that more people will be happy using them. They could close sections of the lounge to enable refurbishment. I thought that's what they were doing with the F lounge when you had to enter it for a while from the J section and part of it was closed off, but I see no evidence of a refurb

Chris9642

When I was in T3 last week a staff member told us that the American lounge will remain closed and merge with a newly refurbished BA lounge (no idea on timescales) - I think that seems to make sense location wise and would be similar to the new setup in JFK T8? Not sure how accurate that was but they seemed fairly certain on the arrangements and the current AA lounge in T3 shows no signs of reopening.

KARFA

I am not sure that makes any sense. The BA lounges in T3 have definitely not been refurbished recently, and there is a rather large corridor between the BA lounges and the AA lounges - this is the main corridor that leads off to gates 13-22.

I am tempted to put this in the Galley FM box, but then I thought the same when it was suggested AA and IB were being forced out of T5 at short notice

Chris9642

Perhaps it is Galley FM - they didnt suggest the lounges had already been refurbished - more that they would be closed then refurbished to be merged then with ther AA space or part of it.

KARFA

ah ok.

I supposed you could make the current BA J + F lounge in to one space as a J lounge, and maybe the AA J + F lounge in to one space as a F lounge. But you can’t combine any BA and AA lounges, they are simply not next to each other.

kanderson1965

I seem to be a long-haul loser, my flight to BGI in September seems to be remaining in T3 😞

Chris9642

T3 is infinitely better from a lounge perspective so unless you have a connection at T5 I always see flying from T3 with BA as a big win (unless your using Concorde Room of course).

kanderson1965

No just the depressing T3 First lounge this time (slumming it in J).