"John Levine" wrote in message
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Recliner wrote:
Of course, the system can be smart enough not to charge if someone does
touch in at a Heathrow station and touches out again a few minutes later
at
a different, or even the same, Heathrow station.

The tube does that now, but I agree that gating the HeX and Connect will
make life
for casual users far more exciting.

Do many people use the train just to get between terminals, as opposed
to continuing on or changing to another train? I'd think that most
people changing terminals would use the airside buses.

I once had to use it when traffic congestion caused the airlink bus to dump
everyone at T5 and not carry forward to T123.

In fact, as that bus no longer serves T4, if that is your required terminal
you have to use HEx to make that journey every time

tim