T5C [what is the opening date?]
Jan 10, 2009, 4:12 pm
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T5C is scheduled to open sometime in 2010, when the remaining BA flights not currently in T5 are scheduled to move over.
I presume it will be pretty similar to T5B, with a Galleries Lounge. I don't think detailed plans have been released yet.
I presume it will be pretty similar to T5B, with a Galleries Lounge. I don't think detailed plans have been released yet.
Jan 10, 2009, 5:07 pm
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T5C will be used mainly to reduce the number of coaching departures.
Jan 11, 2009, 12:23 am
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I know that the shuttle train that goes between T5 and T5B at the moment has already been built to go to T5C but I wonder if there are any plans to extend it to T3?
IMHO that would make a lot of sense to enable the BA and OneWorld flights in T3 to easily interchange with T5 and vice-versa.
IMHO that would make a lot of sense to enable the BA and OneWorld flights in T3 to easily interchange with T5 and vice-versa.
Jan 11, 2009, 2:26 am
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At the last investor day's presentation BA said that the business case for a lounge complex in T5C as well as having one in A and B was still to be decided. I would imagine in the current climate (with the postponement of new First and the refurb of JFK T7) that it's either been put on hold or cancelled completely.
Jan 11, 2009, 2:40 am
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I'll see what I can find out, once I'm back in the UK.
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Jan 11, 2009, 8:29 am
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I know that the shuttle train that goes between T5 and T5B at the moment has already been built to go to T5C but I wonder if there are any plans to extend it to T3?
IMHO that would make a lot of sense to enable the BA and OneWorld flights in T3 to easily interchange with T5 and vice-versa.
IMHO that would make a lot of sense to enable the BA and OneWorld flights in T3 to easily interchange with T5 and vice-versa.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:06 am
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I hate coaches as much as anyone, but is it really worth building an entire satellite terminal just to cut down on a few buses? Also, what will happen to the coach departure gates that are there at the moment?
Not criticising, and I'll be glad when it's built, but if there's quibbling over a lounge, surely there has to be something said about the actual building itself?
Not criticising, and I'll be glad when it's built, but if there's quibbling over a lounge, surely there has to be something said about the actual building itself?
Jan 11, 2009, 9:30 am
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I hate coaches as much as anyone, but is it really worth building an entire satellite terminal just to cut down on a few buses? Also, what will happen to the coach departure gates that are there at the moment?
Not criticising, and I'll be glad when it's built, but if there's quibbling over a lounge, surely there has to be something said about the actual building itself?
Not criticising, and I'll be glad when it's built, but if there's quibbling over a lounge, surely there has to be something said about the actual building itself?
Jan 11, 2009, 9:43 am
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No, I think that it's more that T5 was always going to have T5C, but BAA didn't have enough money to build it at the same time as T5A and T5B - and BA has capitalised on the delay by getting the design changed to accommodate the whales that it has bought in the interim.
Jan 11, 2009, 9:43 am
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Re the actual construction: fair enough if it's already beyond the point of no return. I guess you can't really leave a half-completed building site lying around in a major international airport in the same way the housebuilders can leave developments sitting unfinished...
Jan 11, 2009, 11:57 am
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Except for the few terminal changes between T3/T5 later this year, BA are not planning to move any other flights to T5. So all Spanish flights will be from T3, as will the codeshares to HEL and the JSA to Australia. These will not move to T5, even after T5C is operational.
T5C will be used mainly to reduce the number of coaching departures.
T5C will be used mainly to reduce the number of coaching departures.
If all T3 short hauls were 737s clearly this could not happen, but as they are not it would at least be possible?
Jan 11, 2009, 1:20 pm
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I thought it was always the plan to move every LHR BA flight to T5 once T5C was complete?
Jan 11, 2009, 1:49 pm
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My information is that the Balearics and OneWorld were always headed towards to T3. Again digging into the dim and distant past even with T5C in operation there is just not enough gates for all BAs flights.