British Airways moves 12 long haul routes from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3

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• Liz says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:02

  Yup – we got the email the other day for our Vancouver flights for next Aug. Hopefully be able to use the Cathay lounge on the way out. Could only secure PE on the way back which is a bummer but by the time we get back over to T5 for our domestic connection to EDI we won’t really need a lounge. We do have Dragonpass with our Barclays insurance tho.

• Froggee says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:13

  Think of the poor connecting passengers. It’s enough to put me off some of these routes!

  • QwertyKnowsBest says:

    13 Oct13 October 08:50

    Good news for lounges, bad news for those using domestic connections.

    Personally I don’t mind the connection if LHR would keep connecting passengers from UK ‘clean’ as they used to so no need for a further security check.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      13 Oct13 October 09:58

      Have they ever? T5 domestic to T5 still requires no security check as I suspect T2 domestic to T2. But I can’t think of a time when you could arrive on a domestic and change terminals without a security check.

      There was an exception. Virgin Atlantic paid for a bus for arrivals on their Little Red domestic services could be taken from T2 (or T1 at the beginning) to T3 bypassing security

      • QwertyKnowsBest says:

        13 Oct13 October 11:54

        Have they ever? T5 domestic to T5 still requires no security check as I suspect T2 domestic to T2. But I can’t think of a time when you could arrive on a domestic and change terminals without a security check.

        Yeap, way back arrive T1 and walkway airside to T2/3 (I think it was both I remember that you walked above one terminal airside on ehe walkway) and separate bus transfer to T4. But maybe I am just too old!

        • red_robbo says:

          15 Oct15 October 12:05

          Qwerty – it wasn’t to T3, it was walking along the “Golden Mile” from the T1 Domestic pier, above the T1 International departure lounge, to the FCC (Flight Connections Centre), which was the satellite building by the old Europier between T1 and T2.
          For T3 you had to take the transfer bus.

• Ian says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:15

  Any chance that they’re shifting to T3 in significant numbers because there’s a US pre-clearance facility about to be built in T5? ….or just wishful thinking?!

  • Jack says:

    13 Oct13 October 09:30

    That was announced years ago and with no space in T5 or Heathrow having much funds to do so I highly doubt it will happen any time soon or ever . T5 doesn’t have the capacity for the routes BA flights

• Michael C says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:23

  I would say “yay, GRU”, but it’s the…fourth? change in the last 18 months or so, so won’t hold my breath!

• G says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:26

  Shame Sydney and Singapore aren’t in there!

• Tony says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:35

  So assume that means First class passengers on any of these flights now in T3 will miss out on the Concorde Lounge experience.
  Bermuda for example is one of the few destinations you can often still find some First Class Avios redemptions.

  • Rob says:

    13 Oct13 October 09:11

    You seriously think the Concorde Room is better than the Cathay F lounge?

    • babyg says:

      13 Oct13 October 09:45

      Yup… (well the cocktails/champagne)

    • supergraeme says:

      13 Oct13 October 10:11

      I have no experience of the latter, I just assumed that the Concorde Room was a bit more ‘special’ (perhaps that’s just in my mind!). I read the Cathay review and it definitely seems lovely, but didn’t assume it was better than the CR. My next F flight (Mexico City) hasn’t been moved yet but if it is that’s good to know.

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:

        13 Oct13 October 11:25

        I’d rather the Concorde Room any day although the dining area is probably better in the CX lounge you also have to consider the F wing security line in T5 and more space in the lounge. The CX lounge is probably the best lounge you can get in with just a gold card and I’d say it’s not a big deal losing the chance of the Concorde Room when you have access to this

  • NorthernLass says:

    13 Oct13 October 09:26

    Plenty of F available on US east coast routes, which seem to be staying in T5 for now.

• Alan Gavurin says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:40

  Apologies if this has been discussed/answered but we are flying from T3 on Japan Air Business Class to Tokyo next week on Avios/voucher tickets (because BA cancelled our original flight through them when they reduced their services). Can we use the CP or Quantas lounges?

  • Rob says:

    13 Oct13 October 09:11

    Yes

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      13 Oct13 October 10:02

      I don’t think Quantas has a lounge at Heathrow and I’m not sure what CP is (Crowne Plaza?) 😁

      • Bagoly says:

        13 Oct13 October 10:12

        Rob’s policy is no proper airline codes! 🙂

        • Save East Coast Rewards says:

          13 Oct13 October 11:32

          Even so, what’s a Quantas – apparently spelling it like that can make some Australians act like Italians do if you order a pizza with pineapple on it 😳

    • Alan Gavurin says:

      13 Oct13 October 10:11

      Woohoo! Thanks Rob

• Yuff says:

  13 Oct13 October 08:43

  Sounds like a result, I was disappointed when I hit the email this week about changing terminals, but a better business class lounge and hopefully no plane swaps, sounds better than I could have hoped

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