Now official, with pictures – ‘The First Wing’ comes to Heathrow Terminal 5 in April

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• harry says:

  20 Sep20 September 08:32

  O/T Raffles one for Aniko?

  Here’s your excuse to use the 150 points offer on giftcards @ Tesco possibly for the last time – combine with your 2 point Amex Diamond Club card also possibly for the last time? Argos are running 3 for the price of 2 on Toys starting tomorrow for a week – in itself a great deal but when you add in the Tesco/ Amex points, a killer deal. £50 Argos cards in Tesco = 150 Tesco points = 360 MR points plus in my case 100 Amex MR points = total 460 Avios.

  Call that £4.60 so if you buy (say) 3 toys @ £33.33, you’ll pay £66.66 and effectively get a 38% discount.

  • Yuff says:

    20 Sep20 September 09:18

    Even better if you have a gift card bought at an Esso garage on Sunday 😉
    If you had the Amex offer on your card that is 🙂

    • Roger says:

      20 Sep20 September 12:45

      Hoping that we get another BP offer some time soon from Amex.

• G Flyer says:

  20 Sep20 September 08:50

  I’m not sure 2 dedicated security lanes is enough.

  The 2 existing T5 Fastrack lanes that end of the terminal always seem busy and slow, so a bit disappointing they didn’t take the opportunity to improve that by increasing number of lanes. It’s not impossible to get right: a quick trip to CPH or even LGW would give designers plenty of ideas to re-engineer process to make a genuinely FAST track.

  • Boris says:

    20 Sep20 September 09:51

    One for Lord Mandelson, and one for everybody else presumably 🙂

    • Twams says:

      20 Sep20 September 10:27

      They do always seem slow, but you’ll have the golds and Firsts going through the two new lanes, so that should reduce the people coming through the two existing lanes – so maybe it will get better!

  • Will says:

    20 Sep20 September 11:40

    Very much agree with LGW, I was pleasantly surprised when I recently passed through.

• Neil says:

  20 Sep20 September 09:03

  I’m wondering how this is going to affect my first experience of flying first class in March from Heathrow. My wife and I are going to Chicago for our 40th birthdays and I hope the building works won’t be too disruptive

  • Alex W says:

    20 Sep20 September 11:06

    Presumably those with an F ticket would still be able to take the existing shortcut to the concorde room?

• Sam says:

  20 Sep20 September 10:12

  We’re flying May so chances are it will be delayed to June…

• Dwadda says:

  20 Sep20 September 10:23

  Can’t come soon enough. Next if BA would upgrade the cabanas in the concorde lounge to the same standard as the Cathay Wing First lounge in HKG, and match the quality of the food too, I would be impressed.

• gumshoe says:

  20 Sep20 September 11:49

  Congratulations BA for finally providing a facility that Virgin has offered its BUSINESS CLASS passengers for years.

  At least BA match Virgin in offering their highest spending customers a limo service and an on-demand bistro menu in addition to the main meal.

  Oh wait ….

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    20 Sep20 September 12:18

    I’m pretty sure the Virgin premium lane in LHR takes you out of security the regular way (via the shops). Without a serious remodel it would be impossible to make security pop out near the lounge in T3.

    • Rob says:

      20 Sep20 September 13:01

      No it doesn’t. You still have a long walk from Upper Class security via duty free and all the other shops to get to the lounge.

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:

        20 Sep20 September 13:18

        I’d say for hassle factor the regular T3 fast track (the one BA and other airlines use) is better as it doesn’t force you through the duty free shop and in T3 terms seems the shortest route possible to the lounge.

        Of course, once you get there the VS lounge wins by far, but I do quite like the Galleries First in T3 but miss the time when T3 had no BA longhaul (was it 2013?) as it was so quiet in that period.

• Jon says:

  20 Sep20 September 13:21

  About time. Couldn’t they just allow Golds to use the Millionaire’s door and save a whole lot of construction work? It would be nice to the see the fast track security lanes to be a bit more of a premium experience too. Too often regular security lanes are faster but no one tells you.

• n says:

  20 Sep20 September 13:40

  O/T – Curve Tweeting re Amex “Discussions are ongoing, although we don’t have any updates at the moment and are unlikely to for a while.”

  • harry says:

    21 Sep21 September 18:32

    not sure I will be up with the larks for the 1000 Curve freebies – I simply can’t see the point of Curve for somebody in my situation

    first – I actually like having a wallet with a few credit cards in it, not just 1
    second – I don’t need to pay commission to get cash at ATM either UK or at our place abroad
    third – yes I pay too much 3% on foreign credit card transactions but with BMI MBNA DC card (2 points £1) I didn’t exactly care – so I’ll just finally get prodded into getting Halifax Clarity now that card goes phut
    fourth – Curve don’t offer any other particular advantages for me, not sure why it works well for anybody else but hey!

    • harry says:

      21 Sep21 September 18:38

      not going to diss Raffles’ article though 🙂

      I will be notable by my absence lol

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