Get free Fast Track security when you buy a Heathrow Express Business First ticket

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• Paul says:

  2 Jul2 July 09:49

  Heading out of terminal 5 a month ago, I would just comment that “Fast Track” is anything but fast. On my day they were taking at least every other bag off the conveyor for secondary screening (probably the screener’s first day on the job, never seen that before in my life) but no one was available for the secondary bag search and so we were all bunched up for well over 40 minutes. Dreading it again in a few days.

  • Mikeact says:

    2 Jul2 July 12:54

    +1

  • yonasl says:

    2 Jul2 July 14:20

    I don’t think it is the screeners fault. Each time I use the fast track you have plenty of entitled people flying business but with the attitude of a person that has never set foot on a plane. One lady had two bags full of liquids and when told they had to go into a plastic ziplock simply said “all of them?”

  • Andrew says:

    2 Jul2 July 15:33

    Went through T5 North fast track last Friday afternoon – complete breeze. Likely not during the peak of the day but just shows the variable nature of it all…

• Ned says:

  2 Jul2 July 09:54

  Shouldn’t the price comparison be against the price of the Elizabeth line?! You are paying a lot for fast track when that’s the comparison!

• Fraser says:

  2 Jul2 July 10:13

  Remember you can earn Virgin Points in their new ticketing app when purchasing train tickets (75 for a first class single Heathrow Express).

• NFH says:

  2 Jul2 July 11:55

  I would have phrased the headline slightly differently:

  “Heathrow Express Business First includes Fast Track security”

  The fast track security is not free, because you have to pay for the train ticket. Both services, in this case a package of services, are operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings.

  • Rob says:

    2 Jul2 July 12:15

    I wouldn’t give up the day job Nicholas 🙂

• Alan says:

  2 Jul2 July 11:56

  Lol at ‘waltz through fast track’ phrasing – certainly never my experience of LHR fast track, most of the time is as slow and surly as non-fast track!

  • Catalan says:

    2 Jul2 July 13:26

    Personally I prefer the foxtrot to the waltz

• Safety Card says:

  2 Jul2 July 14:49

  My wife doesn’t need to travel on the HEX but is there anything stopping me booking a ticket for her which she doesn’t use for travel but does use to get through Fast Track at T3 with my two kids?

  • Rob says:

    2 Jul2 July 15:06

    Doubt it!

    • Safety Card says:

      2 Jul2 July 15:43

      I shall give it a go and let you know the result. I’m assuming they’ll let the kids through Fast Track because they’re with her right and that you can’t buy them a HEX ticket?

      • Rob says:

        2 Jul2 July 16:33

        Guess so ….

• Krisz says:

  2 Jul2 July 18:59

  Sorry but the guaranteed table was on the old train. The new train has just the traditional 1-2 seating, some has tables many doesn’t. The only benefit that the cabin is quieter most of the time. Personally I wouldn’t pay for the business first service. T3 fast track sometimes slower than standard queue most of the time the same time. T5 not much difference and total lottery depending how connected passengers are sent.

• Paul says:

  3 Jul3 July 08:45

  It used to be said that the Heathrow express was more expensive than Concorde on a mile for mile basis. That was twenty years ago, therefore I just checked today and the £32 anytime one way fare works out at £2.66 per mile for the 12 mile journey. That is huge!
  Compare it to the rather ludicrous fully flexible BA one way First Class fare to JFK, which is this morning £10,835, and which few people buy. That works out at £3.13 per mile. The BA fare is 17.6% more expensive mile for mile but for that, you you get a bed, good food and wine, comfortable seats, entertainment, lounge access, and fasts track.
  The Heathrow express remains a ludicrous proposition for anyone other those those on expense accounts

  • Rob says:

    3 Jul3 July 08:59

    Kids are free up to 15. Crossrail is only free to 10. As my kids are 11 and 14 ….

  • PH says:

    6 Jul6 July 22:45

    The Heathrow Express selling point is that you are saving time, our most valuable commodity.

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