Heathrow Rendezvous...
May 11, 2006 | 9:01 am
#16
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by WHBM
There are a huge number of Borises and Natashas in London nowadays, if they chase after you it's probably to put in an offer on your house.
Regarding the OP's question, be aware that although most BA flights from the US do indeed arrive at T4, those from Los Angeles and San Francisco arrive at T1, and from Miami at T3. T1 is an-about 10-minute walk through passages to T3. If you are coming from other BA flights into T4 you do need to take the Heathrow Express train. No fares are charged for the in-airport section from T4 to T1, 2 and 3, just hop on board.
My suggestion for a T3 meeting place would have been exactly the same as YVR Cockroaches. There's a coffee and snack counter there (few airports are so sensible as to provide this at the meeting area - Heathrow's not ALL bad) and the seating gives a view of passengers as they come out. Be aware it's quite a large overall area and there are usually hundreds of people milling about.
The details of the T3 arriving flights are displayed on screens but if you want to know progress of a flight arriving at another terminal go to the airport information counter next to the seating area and they will look it up for you.
Regarding the OP's question, be aware that although most BA flights from the US do indeed arrive at T4, those from Los Angeles and San Francisco arrive at T1, and from Miami at T3. T1 is an-about 10-minute walk through passages to T3. If you are coming from other BA flights into T4 you do need to take the Heathrow Express train. No fares are charged for the in-airport section from T4 to T1, 2 and 3, just hop on board.
My suggestion for a T3 meeting place would have been exactly the same as YVR Cockroaches. There's a coffee and snack counter there (few airports are so sensible as to provide this at the meeting area - Heathrow's not ALL bad) and the seating gives a view of passengers as they come out. Be aware it's quite a large overall area and there are usually hundreds of people milling about.
The details of the T3 arriving flights are displayed on screens but if you want to know progress of a flight arriving at another terminal go to the airport information counter next to the seating area and they will look it up for you.
Great. Two college kids (hung over or didn't sleep) and one professor...I'm taking bets.
May 22, 2006 | 9:29 am
#17
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Brilliant plan
Thanks to you guys...it worked! They all met up. Of course, the laggard was the professor on BA who did not follow instructions. She's a bit scatterbrained, but plan B, to all take Heathrow Express worked liked a charm and they met buying tickets.
The 3 shared a taxi from Paddington to their destination (college owns digs in London) and have confirmation by email to thank FlyerTalk. Especially helpful was the info on how to get from Heathrow to London via that sticky.
They had been told to take a taxi, but this was better, faster, cheaper and easy due to detailed directions.
Of course, this Florida girl did not want to take my advice on packing but I talked her out of arriving in sandals and tank tops and she wrote, "Mother, you were right, I'm freezing my ... off."
Kids!
The 3 shared a taxi from Paddington to their destination (college owns digs in London) and have confirmation by email to thank FlyerTalk. Especially helpful was the info on how to get from Heathrow to London via that sticky.
They had been told to take a taxi, but this was better, faster, cheaper and easy due to detailed directions.
Of course, this Florida girl did not want to take my advice on packing but I talked her out of arriving in sandals and tank tops and she wrote, "Mother, you were right, I'm freezing my ... off."
Kids!
May 22, 2006 | 9:43 am
#18
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: London, England.
Programs: BA
Posts: 8,774
Pavane, you are very welcome, thank you for the acknowledgement, we don't always get this.
So are all of us over here. Most unseasonal ! I have just spent the last half hour organising for the office central heating (furnace ?) to be turned back on ! We had shut it down for the "summer".
"Mother, you were right, I'm freezing my ... off."