Originally Posted by
Skipness One Echo
Your flight might be departing from T5C....
OK, but only a minority of flights actually depart from T5C, there are plenty from the main building which do not even involve the silly train. As there are walking times shown around Heathrow's terminals of different times to get to the various gates, why can't there be variable conformance times as well ?
As I understood it, the whole conformance thing at T5 (and only T5) at Heathrow) was introduced as a "spite" by BAA on BA, when the latter complained to the CAA about short-staffing at the T5 security checks, leading to excessive departure delays.