On 29 Mar, 17:24, Roland Perry wrote:
There seems to be a lot of "going up and down" mentioned with respect to
T5. I understand they don't have the space to make it flat like
Stansted, but couldn't they have kept it more on one floor (one each for
arrivals and departures), like Gatwick North?

It's a fairly good design. From the tube (lower basement) you go up by
direct lift to Departures on the top floor (where the coach drop off
road also is). Check in and security happens on this floor. If your
gate is in building 5B you get a long escalator down to the people
mover in the basement., but for gates in the main building you go down
one floor on an escalator to where the gate waiting areas are, and
also the shops. Each gate then has another escalator (and lift) behind
the boarding pass desk that goes down to the floor below, where the
actual jetways are.

IF you're arriving, the jetways are on the same floor as immigration/
customs. Once complete you go down one floor to baggage claim, which I
think is on the ground floor. You come out by the tube/HEx ticket
office, and it's a simple lift down to catch a train.

There's a lot of up and down, but very little horizontal movement.

U

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