British Airways to move to Gatwick’s South Terminal in November 2016

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• Cheshire Pete says:

  20 Jan20 January 10:40

  Agree with the 2 posters above, MAN needs a direct connection into the BA hub here, or it doesn’t interest me at all using their services from there. I have 2 ALC bookings in the system but that is it, and when Iberia start their MAN service to MAD this year I’ll be using that route and not LGW anymore.

  I often wonder when BA did the apparent business justification for pulling the route did they factor in passengers transferring onto more expensive routes now don’t do this anymore. I used to do MCO every year, now I go direct from MAN with other carriers.

• Andrew S says:

  20 Jan20 January 10:47

  I always found the lounge staff to be very good, but a little embarassed by their facilities. I made some comments via the SMS survey after secuity and it must have come through onto the lounge ipad as special services found me to understand my comments.

  Lets just hope some hot food arrives in the new lounge!

• Mark says:

  20 Jan20 January 10:59

  One of the several reasons that I’m disinclined to fly with BA from Gatwick is having the Swissport shower make you wait ages for bag collection, which has happened to us several times (the last occasion being 1hr40!).

  Any news on that front?

• Phil T says:

  20 Jan20 January 18:08

  For me and her indoors walking from the Sofitel directly to security having checked our bags in the night before is a definite bonus so I will miss this convenience.
  It was also a big disappointment when they closed the arrivals lounge in the Sofitel saying there would be improvements as a result. Ha ha!
  And I agree the first lounge is so poor.

• Stu p. says:

  20 Jan20 January 20:09

  I guess the parking prices will swap too?! Last week was £50 more expensive in North short stay than South.

  • Aeronaut says:

    20 Jan20 January 21:25

    Cripes! Catching the inter-terminal transit train really isn’t that much of a hassle.

    • Paul says:

      20 Jan20 January 22:50

      …and about 3 minutes…

      • Paul says:

        20 Jan20 January 22:53

        I do actually despair of some of the people here. It’s a short hop from T1 to T2. About 3 mins on the triple-rail plus a couple of mins waiting, maybe.

        So why would a person/ loser think there’s much difference between T1 & T2 & facilities etc?

        They are about 5 mins apart…

        • Can't Sleep says:

          22 Jan22 January 16:02

          3 mins when its running normally.
          There has been a few times now where they’ve only had one track running making the wait at 5 mins between shuttles.

          When I arrive on a late running BA flight, walk the long walk to arrivals or endure the bus transfer (waiting for all pax to get off the aircraft) and know that you’ve ten minutes to make your train else its a 40 minute wait for the next one, an additional 3-5 minutes on the transit can and has, made the final difference to making it.

        • Can't Sleep says:

          22 Jan22 January 16:04

          And when I say “walk the long walk”, in reality I’m often running.

• Chris says:

  21 Jan21 January 15:47

  And with this change, the return of an Arrivals Lounge?

  We can dream…

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