getting from Heathrow Terminal 2 to Terminal 3

Murphy_The_Cat

zagfles wrote: »

Geographically T2 and T3 are pretty close, they're both in the central terminal area (unlike T4 and T5), so it won't take long to walk between them.

Cheers zagfiles.
On the one hand, I could have been OK with a 70 minute connection and everything tickety boo.
On the other hand, it could have gone wrong, we missed our onward flight, were seated seperately on a (much) later flight, our luggage went AWOL and I wake up with an empty area where my testicles used to reside.

I'm now on a later flight from LHR, with a longer connection time, which takes away the potential !!!!!!ation factor.

duchy

Wise man our Murph. Non intact testicles tend to get a holiday off to a poor start. (Mind you odds are flight times will change again anyway !)

Murphy_The_Cat

duchy wrote: »

Wise man our Murph. Non intact testicles tend to get a holiday off to a poor start. (Mind you odds are flight times will change again anyway !)

I've got quite attached to my testicles over the years and it would have been a shame to part company with them over a missed connection :beer:.

I booked the flights back in September, for flights next July and I was anticipating some changes, but the amount of them (8 so far), has been quite surprising.
Nothing has changed much, just a few minutes here and a few minutes there.
Its a multi flight itinerary, all on the same ticket, so in all honesty, it doesn't really matter that much to me (as long as the connections time doesn't drop below minimum !)

p.s as a related aside. The airlines agent thought that "I'd have been fine with a 70 minute connection at Heathrow to get between Terminals and that their policy wouldn't be to reschedule me just because one of my flights had changed by 15 mins "

Alan_Bowen

Sounds as though you booked through American Airlines, the most notorious changer of flight times known to man?

Murphy_The_Cat

Alan_Bowen wrote: »

Sounds as though you booked through American Airlines, the most notorious changer of flight times known to man?

I have indeed booked via AA :beer::D.
& jolly nice changers of flights they are !

SW17

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

p.s as a related aside. The airlines agent thought that "I'd have been fine with a 70 minute connection at Heathrow to get between Terminals and that their policy wouldn't be to reschedule me just because one of my flights had changed by 15 mins "

The agent was wrong, there is no chance there is a policy not to change a connection that goes below MCT, regardless of the amount of time the flight changed by. They might not notice it, but that's not the same thing.

These things often take a while to be picked up, especially with AA (and I assume in this case you have an EI to AA connection on an ex-DUB itinerary), but eventuallly it should have been flagged that you were below MCT. I've had flights disappear entirely from bookings before with AA, resulting in some very lengthy calls to get them reinstated...

Murphy_The_Cat

SW17 wrote: »

The agent was wrong, there is no chance there is a policy not to change a connection that goes below MCT, regardless of the amount of time the flight changed by. They might not notice it, but that's not the same thing.

These things often take a while to be picked up, especially with AA (and I assume in this case you have an EI to AA connection on an ex-DUB itinerary), but eventuallly it should have been flagged that you were below MCT. I've had flights disappear entirely from bookings before with AA, resulting in some very lengthy calls to get them reinstated...

It wasn't the easiest conversation at times, as the service agent was at the end of a (very) long phone connection and her first language wasn't English.
I suspect that the system hadn't been updated at her end and I was being treated as a customer asking for a schedule change, rather than a customer whose rescheduled flights were now less than MCT - exactly as you suggest. Which is why she was quoting policy.
She was more receptive to my suggested changes when she tried to replicate my original booking and couldn't.

& yes, you're correct. I'm flying into LHR on EI and out on AA

gingerdad

It's also worth remembering the minimum time for bags connecting through Heathrow is longer than the human one so if you are on the MCT unlikely your bags will make it.

Ballard

It's really not far between the two terminals but you were clearly uncomfortable about the possibility of missing your connection so it's probably as well that you changed the later flight.

This isn't comparable but I had a connection in Doha a couple of years ago and within 70 minutes we got on a bus and surprisingly to us ended up going down a motorway for a good 15 minutes. We still got our flight with plenty of time to spare and as a bonus so did our luggage.

Murphy_The_Cat

Ballard wrote: »

It's really not far between the two terminals but you were clearly uncomfortable about the possibility of missing your connection so it's probably as well that you changed the later flight.

Initially, my connection was 85 mins. Not a lot, but within Heathrows MCT and I was happy with that. From what little I could find, T2 & T3 are connected are and walkable in 10 mins (or so), or take connecting bus. Add a dollop of time for security and the repeated checks before you get onto the flight and all was good. Plus, if it didn't work out, the airline would get me onto the later flight.
However, when it dropped to 70 mins and became less than MCT (only just less, but less all the same !) I didn't fancy being left without a flight to catch at LHR, or without my luggage at my final destination. The flight from Dublin seems to be very generously timed, so it would all probably/possibly worked out OK anyhow.

Now I get an extended opportunity to enjoy the delights of Terminal 3, which should be very enjoyable this time around.