March 26th 17, 03:45 PM
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Heathrow T5 Transit photos
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In article ,
(Recliner) wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 11:51:41 +0100, Roland Perry
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mber.org, at 09:57:09 on Sun, 26 Mar 2017, Recliner
remarked:
Yes, Heathrow has four long-haul terminals, all of which get A380
services. Which one did you think wasn't long haul?
T1, but I see you saying it's no longer in use. (And hence any memory of
the quickest exit route is moot).
LHR T1 closed almost two years ago, and in its final few months had
few remaining flights. But before then, there were actually five
terminals handling long-haul flights for a period, as T1 also handled
some long-haul flights. It was probably decades ago that T1 was
short-haul only, certainly before T4 opened.
Surely it was the old T2 (built as the BEA Terminal) which was short-haul
only?
Yes, originally, as I said in the next para:
It must therefore be quite a few years since LHR only had three
terminals with long-haul flights. Perhaps it was before T5 opened,
when T2 was still used mainly for short-haul European flights (it was
originally called the Europa Building); however, I'm not sure if it
didn't get a few long-hauls as well.
BA left T2 many years ago, which was then used by other European airlines,
and for a long time split its flights between T1 and T3, with short haul in
T1. When T4 opened, BA split its flights across all three terminals, with
only T2 not seeing BA flights.
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