LHR connection T3 airside to T5 landside
Oct 11, 2022, 5:36 am
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LHR connection T3 airside to T5 landside
I just arrived on an AA flight DFW-LHR and am connecting to BA LHR-DXB. I have enough time, however, to go for a run and/or into London, so plan to go landside and leave my luggage at left baggage. As I walked through T3, I had to make a split second decision between taking the Flight Connections bus and clearing immigration at T5, or clearing immigration at T3 and taking HEX to T5. I chose the former and it appears to have been a mistake given the queue. Is it always a mistake to do what I did, or did I just get unlucky today?
Oct 11, 2022, 6:07 am
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I just arrived on an AA flight DFW-LHR and am connecting to BA LHR-DXB. I have enough time, however, to go for a run and/or into London, so plan to go landside and leave my luggage at left baggage. As I walked through T3, I had to make a split second decision between taking the Flight Connections bus and clearing immigration at T5, or clearing immigration at T3 and taking HEX to T5. I chose the former and it appears to have been a mistake given the queue. Is it always a mistake to do what I did, or did I just get unlucky today?
Oct 11, 2022, 8:51 am
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Thanks. It turned out not to be too much of a problem. Three buses arrived at T3 in rapid succession to take passengers to T5. I got on the third bus and was able to get through the e-gates very quickly.