Good morning from Terminal 5, where I’m pondering what designer built this wonderful place… because there are certainly never enough gates at Terminal 5.
Why?
I’m at everyone’s non-favourite gate at Terminal 5 – A10. 
For the uninitiated, T5-A10 is the bussing gate at Terminal 5A – for when an airline runs out of gates. And it’s a miserable place to be.
And of course, being BA, they’ll use as few buses as possible to cram everyone aboard a widebody jet. 
One bus. This could be fun.
If we finally get the third runway at Heathrow, can someone design a terminal… which has enough gates to go with it please – so we can end the pain of bussing?
More from next stop later on… could well be a snapshot…
Ironic edit: The music on the transfer bus that was playing when I boarded was “The don’t impress me much” by Shania Twain.
Rather appropriate really.
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I do not understand how the T5 was built with satellites that look as if they could/should be extended. Why weren’t they properly extended? All you see are loooong jet bridges.
I’ll be honest – I’ve long since given up working out what Heathrow’s designers are on. The long jet bridges work for the larger birds which park further away – but it seems they didn’t built it with enough capacity in the first place.
Rather stupid really.