The Finnair höpö-höpö (nonsense) thread
Jan 15, 2019, 1:44 pm
#3181
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Yes, you can go to the lounge for breakfast, if you can obtain a boarding pass for your return flight. Use the boarding pass to go airside. When you come back to the airport in the evening, you have to speak to an airport employee at the gates to security, to let you go airside for the second time with the same boarding pass.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:16 am
#3183
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Jan 16, 2019, 12:32 am
#3184
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So, this far I have now understood that arrivals are separated.
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
Jan 16, 2019, 12:36 am
#3185
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I haven't done this, but why not use the transfer route, or, alternatively, go landside and back through security? If you have your boarding pass for the evening flight this will work. You are not entitled to use the lounge with your arriving boarding pass, though.
However, I am not sure how you would exit T3 then. There must be a route (I know of one in T5), but not the one in T3.
I am not sure if there is a time limit to access the lounge. Maximum I have spent at CX lounge was 4 hours between flights.
However, I am not sure how you would exit T3 then. There must be a route (I know of one in T5), but not the one in T3.
I am not sure if there is a time limit to access the lounge. Maximum I have spent at CX lounge was 4 hours between flights.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:36 am
#3186
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Technically it’s possible. After arrival you go through security check and then to CX lounge. My worries are whether they will let you in again in the evening both through the security check and the lounge with the same boarding pass that’s already been used.
I also don’t know how to exit from T3 airside or if that’s even possible.
I also don’t know how to exit from T3 airside or if that’s even possible.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:43 am
#3187
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I guess what you'd need to do is to follow "Transfers" on arrival, go through security with your evening B/P and use the lounges. When you're ready to go, you CAN leave the transit area, though it's not very obvious where/how. There's a door right after security which leads back to arrivals (or used to be, I haven't used it for a while). You may just have have to ask if you can't find it.
This however might mean problems when you try to go through security AGAIN in the evening, where they scan your B/P and it'll beep and show that this B/P has already been used to pass the checkpoint.
Frankly I just wouldn't do it, too much headache for a couple of glasses of champagne. I'd head to town in the morning and use the lounges in the evening.
This however might mean problems when you try to go through security AGAIN in the evening, where they scan your B/P and it'll beep and show that this B/P has already been used to pass the checkpoint.
Frankly I just wouldn't do it, too much headache for a couple of glasses of champagne. I'd head to town in the morning and use the lounges in the evening.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:44 am
#3188
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So, this far I have now understood that arrivals are separated.
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
Jan 16, 2019, 1:12 am
#3189
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So, this far I have now understood that arrivals are separated.
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
tried to find more info on BA board but drowned into a vast pile of posts.
Again: arriving AY at T3 9:10am wanting to utilize T3 First lounges, then go to city around 11am, come back to T3 at 6pm for 19:25pm AY service back to HEL. Is this allowed, possible and how do I make smoothest entry to lounges in the morning?
Thankful if someone can write an idiot-proof simple instruction a la ”rautalangasta”
Thus, follow the signs for T3 Flight Connectionsi f you have a BP for your onwards travel departing from T3.
Again, whether you're allowed to the CX lounge early before your departure is another issue.
Jan 16, 2019, 2:10 am
#3191
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Thankies for answers.
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Jan 16, 2019, 2:27 am
#3192
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Thankies for answers.
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Or go to check in to modify your reservation - change the seat or take a later/earlier flight... Would this help in the security issue of not using the same BP twice?
This will open up an option to have free breakfast + free drinks, London + expensive drinks, and free dinner + free drinks / jail within a day...
Last edited by TTL; Jan 16, 2019 at 2:33 am
Jan 16, 2019, 3:22 am
#3193
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Thankies for answers.
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Also found finally some posta on BA forum and gather: it is technically possible to connect through transfers screening with onward BP, then exit behind AA lounge corners back to flight connections from where exit through immigration is possible but then entering later with same BP may raise issues that nobody has confirmed if preventing entry but several posts just claim to speak to an agent if there is issues with BP on re-entry.
So it seems possible but re-entry issues warned here and ther but nobody really confirming of denial or firsthand experience of running into problems.
YMMV...
Whether it's worth the hassle is another question. Don't you get access to the Plaza Premium Arrivals lounge (Priority Pass, DC etc.)? You might want to check in which terminal is that one located and which card grants you entry.
Jan 16, 2019, 5:28 am
#3194
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While I don't think I've ever entered LHR twice with the same BP, I have a very hard time believing it would actually lead to any major problems and certainly not up to the point where you would not be able to board your flight. "Oh, you know, after sitting in that lounge for two hours, with eight hours to go before my flight, I actually started to feel a bit bored. It's a wonderful lounge, but it's small, and at that point, a few hours in London started to sound so much more exciting, and it's only a quick train ride away, so why not, I thought. I never imagined it would be a problem..."