Norwegian to resume long-haul flights from London Gatwick in December

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• BSI1978 says:

  14 Jul14 July 05:33

  Big fan of QA’s own lounge at T4, both for ease of walking to the plane and how quiet & chilled it typically was.

  Quite a significant space to be giving up as well.

• Simon says:

  14 Jul14 July 06:01

  What a shame if this means the end of the Qatar lounge. It was one of the nicest, quietest and relaxing lounges around. Presumably they’ll just direct you to a BA lounge at T5, or if they build their own it will be full of BA customers

  • TGLoyalty says:

    14 Jul14 July 06:51

    It’s not the end forever. It’s just not feasible to open T4 right now. As soon as USA flights pick up they’ll be shifted to another terminal.

    • Andrew says:

      14 Jul14 July 07:17

      Or QR will open their own lounge at T5 – they won’t put up with the BA lounge rubbish for their premium pax long term.

  • Andrew says:

    14 Jul14 July 07:22

    QR always state their lounges are “premium lounges” and therefore outside the rules of One World. Economy status pax will be directed to
    BA lounges and only their own business class passengers allowed access.

    • lumma says:

      14 Jul14 July 21:28

      BA Business Class passengers would be allowed access though. Malaysian Airlines business class passengers could use the Qatar lounge in T4

• Gavin says:

  14 Jul14 July 07:48

  Very helpful. We’re flying out (LHR) and back (LCY) to Ibiza next month; would be particularly good to know what the food and drink offering in economy is like? No doubt different from Heathrow and back to City.

• Catalan says:

  14 Jul14 July 07:49

  Why the panic? The QR move to Terminal 5 is only temporary. Once the pandemic eases all airlines will revert to their previous terminals.

  • BSI1978 says:

    14 Jul14 July 10:27

    Would hardly term it panic…..

• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  14 Jul14 July 07:57

  If some residents are going to be miffed about the 3pm switch they will be apoplectic when they find out the LHR has already built a third runway as the picture indicates.

  • Matthew says:

    14 Jul14 July 08:07

    Building the third runway is now even more critical, given some breathing space on capacity and the economic benefit of the construction, jobs etc. The tree hugers need to get real. It will also save stacking which will be beneficial to the environment.

• Ian says:

  14 Jul14 July 08:52

  It’s the northern runway at LHR that’s currently closed. I’m a bit unclear exactly how that will help preparing for resurfacing the southern runway – unless they’re able to fit in some survey work on the southern runway in between the currently less frequent flights?

  • Rob says:

    14 Jul14 July 09:19

    Heathrow press release said southern, by T4.

  • ADS says:

    14 Jul14 July 12:28

    if you have a look at any of the flight tracker sites right now – planes are currently landing on the North runway

    btw, I’m not sure that the daily 3pm swap has been happening recently. it seems like LHR has been using one runway each week !

    https://twitter.com/HeathrowNoise

• insider says:

  14 Jul14 July 08:56

  I don’t think I’ll be booking any flights on Norwegian for the forseeable future. I can’t see the US being open properly by December at the rate they’re going, and I very much suspect the majority of these flights will be cancelled, then good luck getting the cash back without a lot of hassle!

• old codger says:

  14 Jul14 July 09:21

  Do you have to have an Instagramme account to view Rhys’ trip? I thought that was only for people who wanted to influence other people to buy cheap tat and adult entertainers.

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