New walkway opens at Heathrow Terminal 5 between the main, B and C terminals

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• Frankie says:

  22 May22 May 06:49

  Yeah! I’m off to Phoenix Club World on my BA Amex 2 for 1 tomorrow. I’ll take the walkway for a change.

• cpdc1030 says:

  22 May22 May 06:50

  I tried this out when arriving on BA16 this past Saturday. It is a good 10 minute walk at a brisk pace.

• Mark says:

  22 May22 May 07:36

  At least there’s a choice. In T2 you have to walk.

  The decision to put the A380 gates on T5C is the biggest issue. With early morning arrivals from Hong Kong, Johannesburg and soon Singapore as well the trains simply cannot cope.

  • Gumshoe says:

    22 May22 May 14:09

    During the T2 proving trial on Sat I was chatting to a member of LHR staff who said there is provision for a future transit there.

    Presumably for when they close T1 (in December I think?), knock it down and rebuild it as T2C …

    • Dave says:

      23 May23 May 04:29

      T2C? T1 will become part of T2A as they’re next to each other. That’s why currently T2 looks about half the size of T5.

      According to Genius1 on FlyerTalk demolition of T1 is still a while away. They probably want to hear the tills ringing in T2 and getting some of their investment back before starting on the next phase.

      Also I’m sure the uncertainty with the airports commission must be off-putting.

      Ultimate plan is something like this:
      Knock down T1, extend T2A to fill the space (AKA Heathrow East), also build satellite T2C.

      Build T5D, knock down T3. Extend the T5 transit to cover T5D and all T2.

      T4? Some plans have it there, some it’s no longer needed. Perhaps they’d mothball it.

      So eventually all terminals would be linked (if we forget T4). Perhaps T5 would be for IAG airlines and T2 for everyone else.

      • Rob says:

        23 May23 May 10:13

        Yes, it is a full ‘toast rack’ look in 20 years time with all the terminals parallel to 5A/B/C.

• James67 says:

  22 May22 May 07:45

  A useful improvment but tbh I am not a huge fan of T5. For a modern terminal the design is simply awful. I just wish all new airports would follow the example of Denver.

  • Rob says:

    22 May22 May 08:15

    I love T5 in the main. Try Madrid Terminal 4 where Richard Rogers was given free reign because of all the space.

    It feels like half a mile of walking if you plane departs from the last gate. The few shops on the pier are massively spread out – if you pass the newsagent but assume there will be another one, and it turns out their isn’t, it is a quarter mile walk back ….

    • James67 says:

      22 May22 May 08:30

      The shopping at T5, as with most UK terminals is a plus point but that’s about it for me. What I look for is simplicity of layout which is why I like DEN. If the layout is simple and intuitive I do not mind to walk a long wayas that feels good before or after a longhaul flight. However, given my choiceI prefer wherevever possible to avoid huge hubs in favour of a smaller airport I can feel comfortable arriving one hour before departure

    • Ben E says:

      22 May22 May 10:04

      Yeah Madrid is awful. Got lost when we went there last year. Up one floor, down two, walk 200m, up again, down again, walk 1km, etc. Managed to ‘borrow’ 10 bottles of cava from the lounge in compensation

    • Mark says:

      22 May22 May 20:26

      And there’s absolutely no restaurants, assuming you don’t count MacDonald’s…

    • Dave says:

      23 May23 May 04:32

      You’re so right! Some people criticised the more annoying aspects of T5 as being due to the limited space, but in MAD you still seem to be going up and down escalators. The T4S lounge is the only redeeming feature.

• Tom H says:

  22 May22 May 07:52

  Is it still possible to obtain £15 credit at the starbucks in T5C in lieu of lounge access?

  • cpdc1030 says:

    22 May22 May 08:02

    Yes…still works like a charm 🙂

    • Ed E says:

      22 May22 May 08:15

      And after you have had your £15 of credit, can you then go back into the lounge at T5B?

    • James67 says:

      22 May22 May 08:34

      How does that work please? Didn’t know about it on my recent departure.

      • cpdc1030 says:

        22 May22 May 09:20

        How it works: Walk up to Starbucks, make your order, and hand over your boarding pass. They seem to keep track by pen and paper. I’ve done this about five times now, both in F and in Y (BA Silver) with no questions. In fact the Starbucks barista even encouraged me to get a few more things to use the full £15!

        I don’t see what would stop you from going back to 5B and use the lounge. But of course you can’t get the £15 Starbucks credit unless your flight is actually departing from 5C.

  • Rob says:

    22 May22 May 08:13

    I believe so.

• signol says:

  22 May22 May 08:34

  This has been there for a few years, it just hasn’t been publicised. Take a look at the reports on airliners.net 🙂

  • signol says:

    22 May22 May 08:37

    Eg.http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/200660/ from 2011!

• Star Shaped says:

  22 May22 May 08:41

  Is it really new, or just the existing ones are better sign posted now?

• Star Shaped says:

  22 May22 May 08:42

  (I mean…they have recently install travelators in the underground walkways, rather than dug any new tunnels)…so seems a bit of HAL spin to me.

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