hockeyinsider

Delta has an interline agreement with British Airways:
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...nts--iet-.html

hockeyinsider

The Sky Team lounge, which Delta used until it moved all of its flights to the Virgin Atlantic terminal, is two floors and very nice. The food and drinks are more than sufficient for the 3 hours you'll spend inside, assuming, in the worst case, it takes 60 minutes to transit terminals and clear security. If you get lucky, the spa may even have an opening for its complimentary treatment.

Don't forget: Delta can check your bag, if you have one, all the way through to Paris so you don't have to worry about this in London.

pvn

T4 skyteam lounge is nice but there's also the "view heathrow" observation deck in T4 which is great if you like planespotting. It's particularly good for watching landings on 27L.

acrophobia

UKtravelbear

you will be able to use VS (not VA) revivals until approx 1 pm but this is landside so you'd have to clear UK immigration.

Jet Airways used T4 and so you won't have access to the VS CH

WillBarrett_68

You also will not have access to the T4 skyteam lounge (even though you're STE+) since neither of your flights are on a skyteam airline. how long is your layover? Are you in J on Jet (if so you can access the Etihad lounge).

Hopefully Jet will still be operating this Saturday.

hockeyinsider

How long is the layover? Jet Airways uses the Etihad Airways lounge, if you're in first-class. Otherwise, it's the Plaza Premium Lounge for business-class passengers. Here is a review from 2018 of the Plaza Premium. Do note that the sparkling wine isn't complimentary, according to this review.

If you have Priority Pass, you can access the Sky Team lounge. I'd pick the Sky Team lounge, which Delta used to use before it relocated to Virgin Atlantic's terminal.

acrophobia

hockeyinsider

Z is business-class, which Jet Airways calls "Premičre."

According to the airline's website, only first-class passengers have access to Etihad's lounge. But it isn't even Etihad's lounge anymore, as they gave up the lounge and outsourced it to the company that operates the No. 1 lounges. It is now called "The House." You can buy three hours of access for Ł40 ($53). If the alcohol is complimentary, you could easily drink $53 worth of champagne and then expense it to your company.

The ex-Etihad lounge is right across from the Sky Team lounge, which, as I said earlier, is accessible with Priority Pass. Do you not have a Priority Pass membership? The Sky Team lounge is two floors and has plenty of space. Self-serve booze and decent enough food. There's even a small Clarins spa with both complimentary and paid treatments.

So, I think you have four options:

1) Spend all 7 hours lounge-hopping. Start with the Virgin Atlantic arrivals lounge, continue onward to the Plaza Premium lounge (accessible with your Jet Airways business-class ticket), head to the the Sky Team lounge, if you have Priority Pass, and finish up at The House (aka ex-Etihad lounge). It would make an epic Flyer Talk trip report. You could drink a lot of champagne in 7 hours.

2) Go straight to the Plaza Premium lounge and spend your time there.

3) Leave Heathrow and go to nearby Windsor. You'd have about 4 hours to see Windsor. Alternatively, you could take an Uber to nearby Runnymede and see the Magna Carta monument, walk the park and have lunch at the National Trust tea room before heading back to Heathrow.

4) Leave Heathrow and take the Heathrow Express into London for lunch.

CarmenOM

orlandodlplat

Factoring in security, immigration formalities and the unknown, I'd be too stressed out to enjoy a trip to London.

Go to the VS Revivals Lounge. I had a great stay there during a layover last year. They have a great breakfast menu, showers, it's a relaxing place to catch up on work or the papers and relax for a couple of hours before moving on to T4.

In T4, I personally think the ST lounge has gone way downhill. Not familiar with the other options in T4.

hockeyinsider

Then he should also skip the Virgin Arrivals lounge since that would require him going through border control. Even with the fast pass or whatever they call it, you can wait anywhere from 20 minutes to 60 minutes or more at Heathrow, especially if you arrive early in the morning with all of the other red-eye flights from North America.

He might as well take the connecting flight transfer and avoid border control. Hopping between the lounges in terminal 4 is fun. Plus, it would make for a great Flyer Talk post.

mayhem

Same. Don't forget to ask for a spa treatment there too, something that most people miss at the revivals lounge.

orlandodlplat

hockeyinsider

I agree, but if time is a concern then going to the Virgin Atlantic arrivals lounge could take up 3 to 4 hours. Say 45 minutes to 1 hour to get there, if lines at border control are long. Another 90 minutes at the lounge. Another 1 hour to get from the lounge and over to terminal 4 and through the Jet Airways check-in and security processes.

But yes, unless the person wants to go to Windsor or take the Heathrow Express into London for lunch then I recommend going to as many lounges as possible and posting on here about his experience, including pictures, so all of us can live vicariously through them.