LHR T3 lounge crawl Saturday 6 June 2026

Just gauging that this is still going ahead so I can start travel planning. @JessicaTam I will organise for to be on a BA J rewards flight but no longer have QF status so will have access to J lounges only.
 
I love to travel said:
Just gauging that this is still going ahead so I can start travel planning. @JessicaTam I will organise for to be on a BA J rewards flight but no longer have QF status so will have access to J lounges only.
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Certainly is going ahead. There will only be one lounge that we may not be able to enter. All the others are fair game. ;) Don't worry about access to the OWE lounges; there is usually an overflow of people who can guest.

Make sure your BA flight leaves from T3 as there is no access if it leaves from T5.

16 months to go and counting!
 
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British Airways | Executive Club - Planned BA T5/T3 Lounges "transformational change" 2026 - As part of their press release about the new SEA lounge BA have said: The airline’s lounges across London Heathrow Terminal 3 and 5 will be undergoing significant transformational changes commencing in...
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I don't see any issues with access to the qf, ba or aa lounges but cx f could be tricky depending on the numbers. They are quite keen to capacity control to allow their elites/flights to have access and there's a quite a few flights a day. Timetables not loaded yet for 2026 Jun , but an example day is something like
8.35,9.20,12.20,17.00,18.20,20.10,22.15
 
I did a bit of a lounge crawl yesterday at LHR T3. I was flying out on BA (on a flight departing T3) and my brother (with no status) was on JL. We were able to get into the BA, AA, QF and CX lounges with no problems, although I did see some people getting turned away from the CX lounges with staff citing capacity. Hopefully the lounge crawlers next year will be able to access the CX lounges as they're probably the best ones. But all the lounges were good.

Flying BA and with status, I was able to check in basically whenever I wanted. My brother on JL was only able to drop his bag 3 hours before departure. Something to be aware of when considering which airline/flight to book out of LHR if you're attending next year's lounge crawl.

FWIW check-in for QF2 only opened 4 hours before departure.
 
Mattg said:
I did a bit of a lounge crawl yesterday at LHR T3. I was flying out on BA (on a flight departing T3) and my brother (with no status) was on JL. We were able to get into the BA, AA, QF and CX lounges with no problems, although I did see some people getting turned away from the CX lounges with staff citing capacity. Hopefully the lounge crawlers next year will be able to access the CX lounges as they're probably the best ones. But all the lounges were good.

Flying BA and with status, I was able to check in basically whenever I wanted. My brother on JL was only able to drop his bag 3 hours before departure. Something to be aware of when considering which airline/flight to book out of LHR if you're attending next year's lounge crawl.

FWIW check-in for QF2 only opened 4 hours before departure.
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Thanks @Mattg. Good to know.
 
Ok now that we have clicked over to May, time to start thinking about this.

My plan will be a lunchtime FRA to LHR to xx_ BA reward flight in J. I think most people will be leaving on the nighttime flights backs to Asia/Oz but for me this will be the start of my holiday so it will be somewhere in Europe?

My (crystal ball) question is about how "stable" are the BA flights from T3. The worst thing that can happen is that I book a seat to say Budapest and then they change the terminal on me. The BA change fee for award flights is quite hefty and I don't think that a change in terminal would be a valid reason for a free change. Hoping that @JessicaTam or @JapesUK might be able to help here

As a side question as someone who is not terribly familiar with Executive club, what are the rules are schedule changes. With QF, they change by 5 mins and you can cancel or change for free - what is it like on BA?

Really looking forward to this.
 
I love to travel said:
Ok now that we have clicked over to May, time to start thinking about this.

My plan will be a lunchtime FRA to LHR to xx_ BA reward flight in J. I think most people will be leaving on the nighttime flights backs to Asia/Oz but for me this will be the start of my holiday so it will be somewhere in Europe?

My (crystal ball) question is about how "stable" are the BA flights from T3. The worst thing that can happen is that I book a seat to say Budapest and then they change the terminal on me. The BA change fee for award flights is quite hefty and I don't think that a change in terminal would be a valid reason for a free change. Hoping that @JessicaTam or @JapesUK might be able to help here

As a side question as someone who is not terribly familiar with Executive club, what are the rules are schedule changes. With QF, they change by 5 mins and you can cancel or change for free - what is it like on BA?

Really looking forward to this.
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Terminal changes are rare.

Needs to be at least a 4 hour change usually before you get much wriggle room to change/cancel.
 
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I’m out. A cruise a month prior, another cruise a month afterwards (yes, yes bad planning I know) and I’m afraid being in Europe for 6 weeks in between isn’t in the budget. It’ll only cost me around $4.5K in additional J airfares Vs potentially over $10K to live (plus do a bunch of stuff while I’m over there).
 

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