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British Airways moving to the new Terminal C at Orlando airport

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If you have an Orlando trip coming up this Autumn, you should know that British Airways will be moving over to the new Terminal C.

The opening date is scheduled to be 19th September, which seems to have been chosen to avoid the Labor Day peak.

Terminal C Orlando Airport

Aer Lingus will also be moving to Terminal C. The other confirmed airlines are Azul, Breeze, Caribbean, Emirates, Gol, Icelandair, JetBlue, Lufthansa and Norse.

Virgin Atlantic, it appears, will not be moving.

You can find out more about Terminal C on the airport website here. It is not clear how many lounges will be available although Plaza Premium is believed to be opening there.

Based on the images available online, one of which is above, it looks impressive – especially by US airport standards.


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You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

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Comments (63)

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    Wouldn’t it work with Ebay?

  • MinR says:

    Paid my BT TV/Broadband bill. Email notification right away to say I’ve used the offer.

    Result!

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  • Brian78 says:

    Who needs Orlando when we’ve got 40 degree weather in the U.K.!

    The panic is getting a bit silly though. “Snowflakes will melt” is a good quote i read the other day (although it was said by someone who is an idiot generally, if I remember correctly)

    (This isn’t some climate change denying stuff by the way, I’m not a complete loon!)

    • Ken says:

      Probably the utter clown (Sir John Hayes ?) claiming that old people have seen it all before (“lived through the war”) and it’s cowardly advising people to take precautions.

      In 2003 in France roughly 15,000 excess deaths occurred during their summer heatwave.
      Unsurprisingly most of them were elderly, frequently living alone – because few people in Northern Europe have the first clue how to cope with 40C temperatures, particularly when it doesn’t significantly cool down at night.

  • Rob says:

    These days, anything from 3 days to 3 months.

  • Dan says:

    Can I buy a Netflix gift card from Paypal?

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