Mr Thant wrote:
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.

Actually the escalators to the people mover start from the T5A gate waiting
and shops floor. I wandered past them during the trial I was on while
waiting for my "flight" to Moscow, but unfortunately they were out of use
that day.
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Richard J.
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