Originally Posted by
PAXboy
Certainly as the newest major terminal in the world, it ought to have been Number 1 without any effort ...
There is no way that T5 was ever going to be "world's number one" (at least as far as passenger perception is concerned). T5 was
always going to be seriously constrained and full of compromises; it could never have been anything else. The idea that "newest in the world" automatically means that it can easily be "best in the world" belongs in cloud cuckoo land. Given the constraints on T5, it would have been a impossibly Herculean task to make it "world's number one".
I, for one, am happy that they've settled for (and delivered) "pretty good all round", and "much better than the rest of Heathrow".
Originally Posted by
Final 3 Greens
Trains to the E gates leave every 3 minutes (and when the Swiss say 3 minutes they mean and deliver 3 minutes), security is efficient and pleasant, with proactive queue management and a fast track channel that is policed effectively and offers a fast track service.
In short, even when busy, the airport is pretty stress free and painless.
A rather good description of the T5 departures process, in my experience.