openseat said:
A colleague, however, has told me some rather disturbing news that QF will be relegated to T3 and together with the BA flights to Australia. Eventually T3 will become the Oneworld terminal.
Doesn't this undermine the whole purpose of T5? I can't stand the transfers at LHR as it is.
I had been rather looking forward to using T5. Perhaps one will have to route through HKG and transfer to BA there.
I don't think it will be that bad actually - at the moment, you have BA spread between all of the terminals (I think - not sure about T2), OW spread around most of them, all other carriers spread all over the place (including T4). The FCC is an absolute mess as a result, with everybody transferring from every terminal to every other terminal, so that connecting has become a huge PITA.
With the completion of the rationalisations, I think everything will become a lot smoother. T3 (totally renovated) and T5 will become
oneworld hubs, and there will be very few transfers from T3/T5 to other terminals - so this will become somewhat streamlined. (transfers from T3/T5 to elsewhere might become problematic though).
Likewise, Star in T4 will make for easier transfers between Star carriers.
I suggest we wait and see how it all pans out. I don't think we will see the current situation where everybody funnels into the FCC and then gets sorted, I think that a natural streamlining will occur.
Dave