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Originally Posted by LHRGoon
(Post 8515990)
They're building T5 which is opening next year. I don't think it's built out of mud and straw; although it doesn't look as nice as that new airport in China that Foster designed.
Once T5 is open they're going to knock down T2, move those flights to T1 and move all BA flights from T1 to T5. I hope that makes sense. |
Originally Posted by ralfp
(Post 8516146)
People are going to love the fingerprinting for domestic flights from T5.
They were even trying to fingerprint kids when they pick up their school provided lunches but that is now not-compulsory (but still being done). |
Originally Posted by ralfp
(Post 8516146)
People are going to love the fingerprinting for domestic flights from T5.
I'll give them 1 finger from France or Spain. |
Originally Posted by hockeyguy
(Post 8510068)
Probably not. The airlines don't want to have to reaccommodate pax who miss their flights due to security wait times. They also don't want to have people showing up many hours early and clogging up their checkin facilities, lounges, etc. It's unlikely that whatever little payment they may get from BAA is worth the trouble.
Wasn't the strict 1-bag rule supposed to help reduce security screening times? I really hope this doesn't mean that they're going to try to put in a "0.5 bag" rule now (i.e. shrink the allowable size significantly). I do have to say that a 10 minute upper limit is pretty tough. I doubt many U.S. airports, even smaller ones, could meet that requirement all the time. A 5-10 minute average time and maybe a 25-30 minute max might be more reasonable based on peaks of passenger traffic at various times during the day. I'd be willing to accept that as long as there were significant consequences for exceeding the max time so that it didn't happen very often. The 10 minute queue is checked every 15 minutes and BAA were allowed to fail 45 times in a month. Im not sure if this is still the rule. I went through LGW at 9.30am on a friday recently and the queue took about 10 minutes. |
Originally Posted by straygaijin
(Post 8513716)
I'm just about to move from Tokyo to London which will make my home airport Heathrow instead of Narita. This is one of the aspects about moving which I am least happy with.
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Originally Posted by LHRGoon
(Post 8515990)
I don't know about that...
They're building T5 which is opening next year. I don't think it's built out of mud and straw; although it doesn't look as nice as that new airport in China that Foster designed. Once T5 is open they're going to knock down T2, move those flights to T1 and move all BA flights from T1 to T5. I hope that makes sense. |
don't know about that...
They're building T5 which is opening next year. I don't think it's built out of mud and straw; although it doesn't look as nice as that new airport in China that Foster designed. Once T5 is open they're going to knock down T2, move those flights to T1 and move all BA flights from T1 to T5. I hope that makes sense
Originally Posted by Jenbel
(Post 8518267)
T5 funding was well in place, and the design had been finalised, and the place was well advanced in construction before BAA was sold.
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Another goodie about UK airports others may not know.
For UK Immigrations, the Home Office established some type of rule that immigration queues are no longer than 30 minutes. The "penalty" from what I understand was handled internally within immigrations. I know someone who used to work for the Home Office, which is how I found this out. OTOH, it is possible things may have changed over the past couple of years. I've known about the BAA line fines for some time. That is why the BAA would often direct non-premium pax into the FastTrack line (at LGW S, at least). As a result, I would often be holding a NW WBC ticket which means I paid the ++ tax for travelling in a higher level of service. I would get into the LGW S FastTrack security line with a Fast Track sticker on my ticket jacket and be surrounded by folks with EasyJet boarding passes. The result, the FastTrack line at LGW S was just as long as all of the other queues. When I spoke to a NW agent at LGW about this, they explained the max wait time rule and told me how security was doing everything, including opening the flood gates for Fast Track, to keep the time down. I haven't been back to the UK since the liquid rules and 1 bag rule went into affect. Against my better judgement (I got a good deal) and now have my status with OW, I'll be transfering at LHR late this month and again next month. |
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