If I Had To Pick An Airport Terminal To Live In…

A six-hour layover (which eventually turned into an eight-hour layover) might sound horrible, but not with oneworld emerald status in Terminal 3 at London Heathrow. On the contrary, the layover flew by.

For this trip, I had deliberately scheduled a long layover between my United Airlines and Finnair flight, knowing that I would have plenty of time to visit multiple lounges before my flight.

Finnair uses T3 in London Heathrow, which contains, not one, not two, not three, but four oneworld lounges. If you hold oneworld status, especially top-tier emerald status, you are in for a treat.

My first stop was to the Qantas lounge, which offers barista-made coffee. The coffee is always a treat, but the the entire lounge is beautiful and there’s a nice buffet spread plus a la carte dining each evening with a decent menu of choices.

Next, I headed over to the Cathay Pacific lounge. The first class section is beautiful and a mini-version of The Pier in Hong Kong. It’s comfortable and includes a restaurant with a la carte dining. On the business class side of the lounge is more barista-made coffee and a noodle bar.

Then I headed over the American Airlines lounge. Rather than call it “Flagship” the “International First Class Lounge” is not a beautiful area, but also features a dining area with a very respectable a la carte menu (the sea bream and the risotto were excellent).

The AA lounge sits just below the wonderful Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, which I reviewed here.

Finally, I headed over to the British Airways Galleries First lounge, which was huge. It also offers a restaurant with an a la carte menu.

British Airways is updating all its lounges in LHR next year, so this lounge will soon receive a facelift.

It I Had To Pick An Airline Terminal To Live In At LHR…

With five nice lounges and five restaurants with different menu choices, if I had to pick a terminal to live in it in LHR, it would be this one, if for nothing else than variety of choice…there are even a couple Priority Pass lounges.

Now if I was forced to sleep in the terminal area at night, perhaps T4 would be quieter or T2 might have more space, but I just loved the lounge choices all in one place.

Have you visited T3 in London Heathrow? What is your favorite oneworld lounge there?