LHR T5 transit times

[elanshin]

Travelling to UK via BA from HKG BA32 and looking to go up to GLA or EDI on a separate ticket but flights on the day were insanely priced (400+ pounds one way). So I spotted a 0800 LHR - NCL flight but I'm wondering if its reasonably doable transit.

BA32 usually lands into LHR around 6am. BA1326 on that day departs at 0800, both at T5. We will have OWE priorities but on separate tickets. Is this a possible connection on separate tickets or one where you cross every part of your body and hope everything goes through just right?

The alternative i think is that we go into town and take a train up.

 

[Port Power]

Are you flying with hand luggage only? Otherwise you will have to collect your luggage, check in again, and then go through security again. Landing at 6:00am also doesn’t mean disembarking soon after as there could be a long taxi. You are an experienced flyer: will your nerves take the tension?

 

[Montien]

While both flights use T5, the process of clearing UK Customs, waiting for priority luggage to drop from BA32, transferring to T5 Departures, and hitting the domestic bag drop kiosk must be completed before the automated baggage system cuts off strictly at T-45 minutes. Any bottleneck and the whole plan collapses. BA is under no legal obligation to protect or rebook passengers travelling on separate tickets.

 

[clifford]

As mentioned above, I think your chances of making the connection with hold baggage are quite slim ("a million to one they said"...). I wouldn't book it, even with my British passport and good knowledge of LHR. And at that time of day, intercontinetal flights are arriving into T5 every few minutes.

So, if it were me, I'd just book a train, using split tickets, and it should cost you no more than GBP 80 from LON to EDI. If you can snag an advance ticket, it could cost quite a bit less.

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[dajop]

So, if it were me, I'd just book a train, using split tickets, and it should cost you no more than GBP 80 from LON to EDI. If you can snag an advance ticket, it could cost quite a bit less.

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Or if worried about locking in a specific time, a 2 day GB Britrail pass gets you to Edinburgh for $200 AUD or $170 AUD for Senior . Complete flexibility. These also include Heathrow Express to Paddington or get you all the way to Kings X for the EDI train, via the Elizabeth Line/Thameslink, changing at Farringdon.

 

[elanshin]

Yeh thanks for the suggestion. Yes we would be travelling with luggage so I knew this would be a very tight one. One probably too tight for my liking, but it was the only LHR departure north that wasn't ridiculously priced that didnt have us spend 12h+ at LHR or travelling and waiting at LGW for a few hours.

Definitely looked into trains and ~50 pounds up to Glasgow from Euston + HEX to get to Euston. Thanks for the validation.