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UNCalum Aug 16th, 2017 03:28 PM

Connection time at Heathrow
 
I will be flying from Barcelona back to the States on December 22. I have one hour and fifty-five minutes to connect from a British Airways flight to an American Airlines one at Heathrow. I'm pretty concerned about whether I will have enough time to make it. Any words of wisdom out there? I would appreciate any advice and insight on this matter. Thanks for your time.

thursdaysd Aug 16th, 2017 07:06 PM

You can see what this says:

http://www.heathrow.com/flight-connections

If you have already bought the tickets you will just have to hope the inbound is on time and the queues are short. Flying so close to Christmas I wouldn't count on the latter, but that is probably more than the minimum connection time.

socaltraveler Aug 16th, 2017 07:11 PM

And it could depend on whether you need to transfer terminals. We flew BA from Lisbon to LHR in June, to connect to an AA flight to DFW; we were pleasantly surprised to fly both into and out of T3, and did not have to transfer which certainly helped timewise.

UNCalum Aug 17th, 2017 11:57 AM

Thanks for the link, Thursdaysd. It was really helpful. Also, soucaltraveler, it looks as if I will also arrive and depart from T3, and staying in the same terminal will help a great deal.

I hesitated when I bought the ticket (and may still regret he choice in the end), but the only alternative was a two-stop flight rather than only one and to arrive in Miami before doubling back to NC. Time will tell if I did the right thing!

annw Aug 24th, 2017 05:18 PM

We've made it with an hour with a minder literally running us from one terminal to the other at LHR (and the doors closing), but nearly 2 hours in the same terminal seems doable if the first is remotely on time.

mjs Aug 27th, 2017 04:34 PM

This is all on one ticket?


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