Sorry I know its in wrong place but!

mad m

Does anyone know am I going to airport too early,My family and I are flying out to LA tomorrow from Heathrow at 10am,but we are getting an aerlingus flight from dublin to heathrow at 7am. We booked a taxi to pick us up at 3:30am to give us the 3hours check in time for a flight to USA.

But we just got off phone with relative in states,he feels we're going too early to dublin airport for our check in because flying from Uk they do the customs when we land in LA instead, if we were flying with aerlingus they insist on doing it before departure. Dont want to have to drag kids up in early hours when they could of got some extra sleep.

Creamy Goodness

you only go through customs in dublin if you are flying direct from dublin to say LA.

you'll probably have to do customs in heathrow or LA.

don't quote me on this though

mad m

Well I hope we do it in LA as we only have an hour changing for flights,but we are in same terminal in heathrow...

Ruu_Old

You should be fine. You will go through customs and border protection when you arrive in LA. Terminal 5 in Heathrow yeah? Have a good time.

Creamy Goodness

i think he may be getting another plane ie not aer lingus from heathrow to LAX.

much better not flying with the likes of virgin etc.

spurious

You're flying to London at 7am - you do not need to be in the airport until about half five. Nothing will be open anyway.

You can't do US immigration here before flying to London - only when you are flying to the US.

mad m

#Elites wrote:

as a matter of interest, why are you going to london to go to LA?

Im going to LA next month, but going direct from Dublin > LAX

It was actually cheaper.Last year it was €400 cheaper to fly direct.But flying from london was €100 cheaper this year from last...

mad m

Ruu wrote:

You should be fine. You will go through customs and border protection when you arrive in LA. Terminal 5 in Heathrow yeah? Have a good time.

Terminal 1 actually Ruu....Thanks

Ballerina

im so jealous




but at least i have a lie in tommorrow..:cool:

Chakar

Yup get up at half five thats just the ticket and you'll be just grand.

EDIT: Unless you live outside Dublin?

Black Swan

mad m wrote:

Does anyone know am I going to airport too early,My family and I are flying out to LA tomorrow from Heathrow at 10am,but we are getting an aerlingus flight from dublin to heathrow at 7am. We booked a taxi to pick us up at 3:30am to give us the 3hours check in time for a flight to USA.

But we just got off phone with relative in states,he feels we're going too early to dublin airport for our check in because flying from Uk they do the customs when we land in LA instead, if we were flying with aerlingus they insist on doing it before departure. Dont want to have to drag kids up in early hours when they could of got some extra sleep.

Your Dub trip might be a bit early with kids? You may get delayed in Heathrow with security screening, but that would not affect when you showed up at Dub. LAX is often a pain clearing US Customs, so bring your patience with you.

nesf

mad_m banned for a week for intentionally not posting in the correct forum. You should know well enough not to do this.

Thread moved to travel.

whatsupdoc?

banned for a week

He probably won't realise until he comes back and at that stage, it will be over

nesf

whatsupdoc? wrote:

He probably won't realise until he comes back and at that stage, it will be over

I'm well aware of that. Example made, and poster unaffected. Win win really

mad m

Well actually filled out forms on BA flight for us immigration so thanks all for the help,got here now. Only reason I put it in after hours was I knew I would get an answer fairly sharp. Sorry.