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I didn’t see another topic under which this would possibly go, but there is big news this morning as I am connecting at LHR—the Brits have done a deal with TSA so you no longer have to clear security again at Heathrow on flights originating from the United States.

Previously, if flying from Austin or any other airport in the United States, you landed at Heathrow, followed the purple signs for ā€œFLIGHT CONNECTIONSā€ and then had to go through security as though you were getting to the airport for the first time. No more. Now, you just deplane and go straight to your connecting gate as though Heathrow were any other normal connecting airport in the world.

Apparently today is the first day for this, and everyone here in London was excited (and a little confused about how it was going to work). I don’t know exactly how it works for everyone—I’m CK on AA, so I had a separate car drive me directly from T3 to T5. But presumably if you arrive at T5, you just get off the plane and go straight to your connecting gate now.

Anyhoo—this makes LHR a much more attractive connection point than it has been in the past.

13 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I don’t know exactly how it works for everyone—I’m CK on AA, so I had a separate car drive me directly from T3 to T5.

Had to get that one in there. Not even a humblebrag.

The ultimate brag is never having to fly through LHR. CK is penultimate.

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1 minute ago, 52-80 said:

The ultimate brag is never having to fly through LHR. CK is penultimate.

  1. This is completely accurate.

  2. Posrep for correct use of the word ā€œpenultimate.ā€

1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

  1. Posrep for correct use of the word ā€œpenultimate.ā€

I love how this is your second point.

Good to know. Currently planning a Scotland trip for summer and this helps a lot.

8 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Good to know. Currently planning a Scotland trip for summer and this helps a lot.

Last summer we took a train from london to Edinburgh. Worked great. Got to see cool countryside.

23 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Last summer we took a train from london to Edinburgh. Worked great. Got to see cool countryside.

that was the plan. we've done it before though. may still be the way we choose to do it since my youngest wants another night in london.

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11 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

that was the plan. we've done it before though. may still be the way we choose to do it since my youngest wants another night in london.

I’m never going to argue with a night in London.

On a trip a few years ago when our children were a bit younger, we planned on taking the overnight train to Fort William. We got all the way to the platform at Kings Cross (or was it Easton?) when a very nice conductor told us that there had been a mudslide that took out the tracks and that passengers for Fort William would get off at Glasgow at 4:00 AM and take a bus to Fort William. Mrs.LL and I looked at one another and said ā€œy’all may be doing that, but we’re not.ā€

We went to the W in SoHo and got a suite and had a helluva night. Got up the next morning, took a train to Glasgow, rented a car, and drove to Oban. Damn, that was a fun night in London—the whole family still talks about how much fun that was.

And so I think that’s the way you probably still want to go. If you’re connecting to another UK destination, my understanding is that you still have to clear customs at LHR and then you get spit out landside. So in that instance, you have to clear security again.

The no-security connection is strictly for passengers connecting from the United States to other non-UK destinations.

As someone who has traveled to Heathrow half a dozen times, this is excellent news. Can confirm what Ghost said, you follow the purple arrow through several corridors, then get on a packed bus for a 10 minute ride to the next terminal to only have to get in a security line again, while looking at the clock hoping you make your next flight. Best news I have heard today.

6 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

Last summer we took a train from london to Edinburgh. Worked great. Got to see cool countryside.

We're doing that next time we go to Scotland. Airports in the UK are more fucked up than ours are.

34 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

We're doing that next time we go to Scotland. Airports in the UK are more fucked up than ours are.

Not untrue. That said, it's a bit of a hassle getting from LHR to Euston (where your trains to Scotland leave from). Now that the Elizabeth line takes you to St. Pancras, that makes it easier, but it's still nearly an hour process to get to the train station. We've done it, but now that the boy commutes home from Glasgow, it's generally easier for him to fly GLA-LHR-AUS than it is for him to take the train in the UK.

But agree, the train is a much more pleasant journey all in all. We were actually right at the border, headed from London to Glasgow on the train, when we got the news that Queen Elizabeth died. It was kinda trippy.

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Not untrue. That said, it's a bit of a hassle getting from LHR to Euston (where your trains to Scotland leave from). Now that the Elizabeth line takes you to St. Pancras, that makes it easier, but it's still nearly an hour process to get to the train station. We've done it, but now that the boy commutes home from Glasgow, it's generally easier for him to fly GLA-LHR-AUS than it is for him to take the train in the UK.

But agree, the train is a much more pleasant journey all in all. We were actually right at the border, headed from London to Glasgow on the train, when we got the news that Queen Elizabeth died. It was kinda trippy.

Yes we did that too coming back.

8 hours ago, Native Horn said:

I love how this is your second point.

Eh, only partial credit without including a separate third and final point.

1 minute ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

separate third and final point.

I thought "OU Sucks" was implied as a third point.

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