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Old April 11th 08, 03:33 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default OT - BA postpones long-haul move to T5

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08:06:49 on Fri, 11 Apr 2008, John B remarked:
Oh dear there's currently a minimum connection time of 1 hour for BA
flights, having to transfer from terminal 4 to terminal 5 has blown
that. This is going to add several hours to many BA journeys.


Eh? Pre-T5, nearly all BA short-haul went out of T1 and nearly all
long-haul went out of T4.

Until June, nearly all short-haul will go out of T5 and nearly all
long-haul will go out of T4.

That's *exactly the same as it's been for the last 15 years*. It just
hasn't got better quite as soon as it was supposed to...


In the mean time, there will be passengers who have booked connecting
flights supposedly made newly-possible because both long and short haul
were at T5. They may have to re-book, or some very special transfer
arrangements made (I suppose they could bus them across the tarmac
having met them at the airbridge, but it's all a lot of faffing about).
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Roland Perry