Heathrow Terminals

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:32:17 +0100, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane departing from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another (walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we arrive on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5? Or does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?


--
Ken Blake

While all the answers so far are not wrong they fail to ask 2 critical
questions.

1) Where are you flying to from Terminal 5?


Prague.


2) Is your journey all on one ticket or do you have separate tickets for the
arriving and departing flights? And note, I mean tickets not reservations
or airlines. It is quite possible to have 2 tickets on one reservation and
equally to have 2 tickets both on the same airline.


One "ticket" (e-ticket). It's an AAdvantage mileage award trip.



--
Ken Blake

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:17:08 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:34:45 +0100, William Black
wrote:

On 07/10/10 17:58, Ken Blake wrote:
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane departing from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another (walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we arrive on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5? Or does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?

Head for 'Flight Connections' when you get off in T3.

Yes you'll have to go through security again.

Depending on the queue for 'air side' security it can take anything from
40 minutes to 1 1/2 hours, but it's safe to assume about an hour
gate-to-gate.


Thanks. Then it's a good thing we have two and a half hours. I hope
our arriving flight is on time.

My recollection is that if you use the airside shuttle you go
through a different and faster security check than if you come in
off the street.

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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:50:38 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:17:08 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:34:45 +0100, William Black
wrote:

On 07/10/10 17:58, Ken Blake wrote:
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane departing from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another (walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we arrive on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5? Or does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?

Head for 'Flight Connections' when you get off in T3.

Yes you'll have to go through security again.

Depending on the queue for 'air side' security it can take anything from
40 minutes to 1 1/2 hours, but it's safe to assume about an hour
gate-to-gate.


Thanks. Then it's a good thing we have two and a half hours. I hope
our arriving flight is on time.

My recollection is that if you use the airside shuttle you go
through a different and faster security check than if you come in
off the street.


Thanks, that's good to know.

Ken

--
Ken Blake

"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:32:17 +0100, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane departing from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another (walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we arrive on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5? Or does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?


--
Ken Blake

While all the answers so far are not wrong they fail to ask 2 critical
questions.

1) Where are you flying to from Terminal 5?


Prague.


2) Is your journey all on one ticket or do you have separate tickets for
the
arriving and departing flights? And note, I mean tickets not
reservations
or airlines. It is quite possible to have 2 tickets on one reservation
and
equally to have 2 tickets both on the same airline.


One "ticket" (e-ticket). It's an AAdvantage mileage award trip.



--
Ken Blake

Thank you. In which case you should be able to through check to Prague
with both boarding passes issued at the departure point of the first flight
and the bags checked through. You can then use the airside transfer via
the connections centre that others have previously told you about. If you
had had two tickets each would have been a separate contract and you would
have had to complete on, collect your bags, enter the UK, use the Heathrow
Express and check in again to start the 2nd ticket (contract). Connecting
through T5 to a UK domestic point would also have had its' own wrinkles.

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:36:04 +0100, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:32:17 +0100, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane departing from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another (walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we arrive on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5? Or does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?


--
Ken Blake

While all the answers so far are not wrong they fail to ask 2 critical
questions.

1) Where are you flying to from Terminal 5?


Prague.


2) Is your journey all on one ticket or do you have separate tickets for
the
arriving and departing flights? And note, I mean tickets not
reservations
or airlines. It is quite possible to have 2 tickets on one reservation
and
equally to have 2 tickets both on the same airline.


One "ticket" (e-ticket). It's an AAdvantage mileage award trip.



--
Ken Blake

Thank you. In which case you should be able to through check to Prague
with both boarding passes issued at the departure point of the first flight
and the bags checked through.


But unfortunately we won't have boarding passes for the BA flight to
Prague. We'll get boarding passes for our two AA flights, both
starting in the USA, but AA can't give us boarding passes for a BA
flight, and we can't get boarding passes for the BA flight to Prague
until we arrive at LHR. How does that affect the situation?


You can then use the airside transfer via
the connections centre that others have previously told you about. If you
had had two tickets each would have been a separate contract and you would
have had to complete on, collect your bags, enter the UK, use the Heathrow
Express and check in again to start the 2nd ticket (contract). Connecting
through T5 to a UK domestic point would also have had its' own wrinkles.

--
Ken Blake

Martin wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:32:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar

wrote:

Martin wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:35:58 +0000 (UTC), Erilar

wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:30:43 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:20:24 +0100, "JohnT"

wrote:


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
In a couple of weeks, my wife and I will be arriving at London
Heathrow terminal 3, and will have to change to a plane
departing
from
terminal 5.

Can someone tell me how we get from one terminal to another
(walk?
train? bus?)? Do we have a choice? We don't mind walking if it
won't
take too long (we have 2-1/2 hours between flights if we
arrive
on
time).

And will we have to go through security again at terminal 5?
Or
does
that depend on which transportation option we choose?

You can transfer Airside. Look for signs saying "Flight
Connections"
when
you arrive at T3.


Thanks.


You will have to go through Security again.



That's what I was afraid of. Oh well...

Must be a Heathrow thing. I haven't had to go through security
elsewhere if I didn't stray into the wrong shopping area 8-)


It's happened to me several times, when I had to change terminals.
The
two examples that come to mind are LAX and LAS.

Oh, that would be much worse than just changing planes at the same
one.
That's why I'm flying from Chicago to Aberdeen via Denmark next
spring--to avoid a Heathrow/Gatwick transfer.

The only flight I could find between Chicago and Aberdeen via
Denmark
is also
via London. Who are you flying with?

SAS, of course.

To Copenhagen and then?
Aberdeen, as I said.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

"Jean O'Boyle" wrote:
"Erilar" wrote in message
-if

it

That's what I was afraid of. Oh well...

Must be a Heathrow thing. I haven't had to go through security
elsewhere if I didn't stray into the wrong shopping area 8-)


It's happened to me several times, when I had to change terminals.
The
two examples that come to mind are LAX and LAS.

Oh, that would be much worse than just changing planes at the same
one.
That's why I'm flying from Chicago to Aberdeen via Denmark next
spring--to avoid a Heathrow/Gatwick transfer.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


Will your first USA stop be Chicago on the way back? We recently
returned
from Munich to Chicago on Lufthansa and found O'Hare a total
nightmare!
Next time I will avoid having to return via that airport from any
overseas
trip.
O Hare is my start and finish, but I am delivered and retrieved by
family 8-) My daughter lives north of Chicago and I leave my car at her
place. O Hare is familiar territory for me, but there are airports I
like better 8-)


--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

But unfortunately we won't have boarding passes for the BA flight to
Prague. We'll get boarding passes for our two AA flights, both
starting in the USA, but AA can't give us boarding passes for a BA
flight, and we can't get boarding passes for the BA flight to Prague
until we arrive at LHR. How does that affect the situation?



BA will issue them at the connections centre.

On 09/10/10 00:14, Ken Blake wrote:

But unfortunately we won't have boarding passes for the BA flight to
Prague. We'll get boarding passes for our two AA flights, both
starting in the USA, but AA can't give us boarding passes for a BA
flight, and we can't get boarding passes for the BA flight to Prague
until we arrive at LHR. How does that affect the situation?


Assuming your baggage is booked right through, as it should be, there
is a BA check-in desk at the Heathrow connection centre and another one
'air side' in Terminal 5 who should both be able to give you your
boarding card.

But AA might well give you both cards.

You're doing something a gazillion other people have done before you.

--
William Black

Free men have open minds
If you want loyalty, buy a dog...

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:15:48 +0100, "Graham Harrison"
wrote:

But unfortunately we won't have boarding passes for the BA flight to
Prague. We'll get boarding passes for our two AA flights, both
starting in the USA, but AA can't give us boarding passes for a BA
flight, and we can't get boarding passes for the BA flight to Prague
until we arrive at LHR. How does that affect the situation?



BA will issue them at the connections centre.



Great, thanks. So everything else you said in your preceding message
remains true?


--
Ken Blake