djsflynn

No access to the new AMEX Centurion Lounge?

casey89

is it any good? I have Business inboud with AA and outbound from T3 in Club Europe, but unfortunatelly due to the situation only Bronze Exec.

sxc

Access criteria: thecenturionlounge.com/info/access/

• Platinum Card® Members
• Business Platinum Card® Members
• Corporate Platinum Card® Members
• Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Card Members
• Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business Card Members
• Centurion® Members

casey89

Oh, it is a shame. I am not a holder of any of those cards. So I guess the BA T3 it is. Or maybe it will make a sense to go to T5B BA lounge since I am having like 7 hours layover. Do you know if BA has troubles to let travelers in the lounge for more than the 3 hours?

KeaneJohn

You won’t be permitted into the airside terminals at T5 with a T3 boarding pass. If you arrive in the UK I think you might be able to head over to the BA arrivals lounge at T5 and h@ve breakfast and freshen up there. You can then head back to T3. Eligible BA passengers can use the lounge for any amount of time so no 3 hour minimum. You can travel between terminals 3 and 5 free using the Heathrow Express. A free ticket can be obtained from the machine. For free travel on the underground between terminals an Oyster card or contactless card is needed but it won’t be charged.

Don’t forget for 7 hours you could easily have breakfast in arrivals and head to Windsor for a stroll and to pass some time before heading back to T3.

djsflynn

Yes, long-haul arrival in AA business class should get you into BA's T5 arrivals lounge, which I must admit to quite liking – tuck into a nice breakfast, have a shower, and then if the weather and you are both agreeable, heading out to Windsor sounds like a lovely little excursion.

casey89

Thank you guys for suggestions. I will arrive on Dec 16th at 12:15 from LAX and have connecting flight (on same ticket) to PRG but the only possible flight this day is at 19:35 so I am trying to get best out of this 7hrs layover. If the weather will be nice I might try the Windsor, it looks very nice (just to be sure, I will check my baggage in LAX all the way through to PRG and it is no problem to get out of the Heathrow T5 when I arrive and then just go to the T3 security check with the boarding pass LHR-PRG that was issued in LAX right?)

But if I decide to stay at the airport there is no way how to get to the T5 departure lounges? I thought that when I land at T5 I might not go to the transit buses to T3 but stay at T5 and choose whatever lounges I want to hang out. But if I can't get airside at T5 with T3 boarding ticket then there is no way i guess. I saw some trip report from LAX where the departure was at T4 but the guy went to the TBIT lounge so I thought I could do the same at Heathrow.

djsflynn

FYI, Qantas has just reopened its LHR T3 lounge, hours are listed by the airline as 6am-4pm as it appears to be temporarily shared with EK so the timetable is built around both QF and EK flights.

Freddorick

In the old days, before COVID, this was possible but up to the agent/person checking boarding passes before transit security. I did this a few times arriving into T3 and having to transit to T5. The most effective reason to enter T3 back then was to use the transfer desk of some airline there.

KARFA

Yes so this differs between terminals. You can enter T3 airside departures area on that basis, or others did it to use the lounges there, even when your bp is for a flight departing another terminal.

The difference is with T5 you can't do that. To go in to the airside departures area of T5 you do need a bp for a flight departing T5. So if arriving in T5 but departing T3 you can't go in the airside departures area of T5, and you can't use the lounges in T5.

KeaneJohn

Since this posting the rules have changed in the UK and the arrivals lounge is now closed again as people must self isolate until they get a negative day 2 or before test so no stroll around winter.

id suggest arriving, airside transfer to T3. Have a late lunch in Qantas lounge (squid if they have it) plus enjoy some ins from their gin bar then poodle to the BA lounge in T3 have a shower and a few drinks and some nibbles. Have a great trip.

unfrequentflyer

No lounge in LHR can be better than Concorde Room

lost_in_translation

Your user name says it all

The _Banking_Scot

Hi,

Reported on Londonairtravel.com

https://londonairtravel.com/2022/01/...dDjOvCALZNZWNQ


via the BA forum

BA lounges : COVID-19 closures and reopenings


The CX J and F lounges at LHR T3 are now open again!
(closing around 1730)
Regards

TBS

celsdon

Thanks does anybody know if you require a negative test to enter the lounge? Singapore Airlines had this requirement when it reopened so would be interesting to know...hoping to visit next week!

I'll answer my own question, the Twitter chat team confirmed no COVID test is required to enter the lounge - at least, not right now. I guess this *may* change when they resume HK flights.