Partial Chaos T5
Sep 7, 2022, 6:07 am
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Partial Chaos T5
A bit of a mess in T5 today. My wife is in a wheelchair and we waited 30 minutes at gate A7 for a wheelchair and assistance to arrive. Headed for Galleries South only to be told that the lounge was closed due to capacity levels. Told to head back to Galleries North! People leaving all the time but told we could not wait. I challenged this said that my wife needed to get a seat and that the person of staff on the wheelchair urgently was needed for other duties. Eventually member of staff denying entry threw a strop and marched off to get a Manager immediately after which everyone headed up the stairs and on the lifts only to be given entry!
Sep 7, 2022, 6:50 am
#2
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: GLA
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Looking at the lounge feed it looks like North and South are both rammed.
Sep 7, 2022, 7:28 am
#3
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Looking at the lounge feed it looks like North and South are both rammed.
Looking at that lounge feed, T5B is the place to be!
Sep 7, 2022, 7:34 am
#4
Join Date: May 2009
Location: London
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And any drop due to the lowering of BA flights has obviously been made up with Iberia and AA flights now leaving from T5…
Sep 7, 2022, 7:36 am
#5
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: GLA
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And maybe longer connection times due to the short haul cancellations.
Sep 7, 2022, 8:13 am
#6
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: London
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I think IB and AA are back to T3
Sep 7, 2022, 8:47 am
#7
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Well, I'm off to Austin in November and New York/Boston in January. We work with a number of US companies. Only 1 responded they'd be up for meeting (in person). I genuinely do not think business people are travelling in the day like before the pandemic as so many employees are still either working remotely or simply do not fancy meeting in person like they once did. It's less of 'a thing' now particularly in the US.
Sep 7, 2022, 10:54 am
#8
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NYC
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Business travel is kind of down and the people who do travel (whether for business or leisure) are leaving plenty of time in case of airport chaos and thus arriving hours earlier than they would have prepandemic.
Sep 7, 2022, 11:00 am
#9
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Not really - there’s a not inconsiderable number of premium leisure passengers who wait until this week when the schools go back to get away who’ll spend longer than average enjoying the lounges.
Sep 7, 2022, 11:21 am
#10
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Sep 7, 2022, 11:25 am
#11
Join Date: Jul 2016
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Well, I'm off to Austin in November and New York/Boston in January. We work with a number of US companies. Only 1 responded they'd be up for meeting (in person). I genuinely do not think business people are travelling in the day like before the pandemic as so many employees are still either working remotely or simply do not fancy meeting in person like they once did. It's less of 'a thing' now particularly in the US.
Sep 7, 2022, 12:28 pm
#12
Join Date: May 2009
Location: London
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Fair enough. But I’ve never travelled for business, and I was only thinking of leisure travellers like myself. And I flew at the end of last week, precisely because it was outside the school holiday period.
Sep 7, 2022, 12:44 pm
#13
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Well, I'm off to Austin in November and New York/Boston in January. We work with a number of US companies. Only 1 responded they'd be up for meeting (in person). I genuinely do not think business people are travelling in the day like before the pandemic as so many employees are still either working remotely or simply do not fancy meeting in person like they once did. It's less of 'a thing' now particularly in the US.
Sep 7, 2022, 12:49 pm
#14
Join Date: Oct 2005
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i took the HEX arriving around 4pm to LHR and the train and T5 were plenty abuzz to the point of being annoying. once i finally got upstairs, the entire zone by the F wing was barren as was the F wing itself. once thru the flounge was busier than i'd expected and looked like a storm had passed thru as i made my way to CCR.
last week of US holidays so wouldnt really expect much slow down until next week at the earliest.
last week of US holidays so wouldnt really expect much slow down until next week at the earliest.
Sep 7, 2022, 12:51 pm
#15
Join Date: Apr 2015
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If you think the BA ones are dire, try some of the AA ones... .