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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4353084, member: 1047"] [B][U]Part 1A Escape from Heathrow.[/U][/B] Did you know you are trapped in Terminal 5 part A if you have a connecting flight that is cancelled? I've traveled a ton Been in Heathrow at least 25 times in my life even pre T5 and I did not know that. So to continue my story once the flights were cancelled I knew we could not stay in the airport, my brother in law as mentioned was cancelled 2 days before and they still hadn't given him an alternate flight out of London, so what to do? I needed to get the hell out of that god forsaken place, get into London get my pregnant GF fed and a bed, and make train arrangements for the next morning. Sounds simple enough, right? I thought so, and then ran into two sticking points: 1) we didn't have all of our luggage, it was supposed to be on the cancelled flight to Glasgow. 2) There is no way to leave T5 , and I was told by a random airport worker that BA representative would have to walk us through to arrivals. Items 1 and 2 are related because you cant get to baggage unless your destination was London. Obviously getting a BA representative to walk us to london arrivals was a non starter, there was ONE BA employee in the Terminal handling a 5 hour queue of an Angry mob thanks to BA maleficence. So now what?. With the help of an airport guy pushing a mop, he told us to get on the tram that goes to T5 B and C BUT DONT GET OFF THE TRAM, stay on at end of line otherwise you are on the wrong side of the doors, when it returns to T5 and we then have access to the arrival and baggage claim of T5. The only caveat was he said we would go through customs for the 2nd time in a few hours and that "might cause a wee spot of an issue" LOL. We were desperate. We did it. It worked. They were too busy to flag us, I fully expect to be strip searched coming home (if that ever takes place) . So now we are in baggage, and just like above in T5 trying to talk to a BA rep, the BA baggage counter is a mob scene (but this time violent, seriously) with people who had their bags missing just because BA has no baggage handlers PLUS the cancelled flights. We stood in that Mob waiting our turn for like an hour when finally an announcement was made over the intercom saying "all flights that have been cancelled tonight, we have no way to get your bags and no handlers to bring them, they have been brought to a warehouse off Heathrow grounds ** " Please see baggage attendant for alternate accommodations" So now I know getting the bag is out the window..... screw it, nothing we can do, lets get to the curb and get a taxi its midnight. Easy right? No. [/QUOTE]

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