Can I transfer from Luton to Heathrow in three hours?
I will be landing in Luton according to the schedule at 14:30 on 24th of January.
I want to fly out from Heathrow at 17:30 same day. Cabin luggage only.
How feasible it is to clear border, jump on the green line to Victoria, take underground to Terminal 5, run through security all for the three hours available?
Best Answer
No chance. The Green Line 757 bus seems to take around 1h20m give or take a few minutes, and they're only hourly so if you don't time it well you could be waiting an hour. It's a reasonable walk at Victoria Coach Station to the Tube Station. Then you've got quite a reasonable tube journey to Heathrow of over 50 minutes. Add on time to get through Luton (which is not exactly known as the fastest airport in the world...) and for extra fiddling and you have a high chance of missing the 35 minute deadline to get through the gates at security.
A faster route would be to catch the shuttle to Luton Airport Parkway station, Thameslink down to either St Pancras or West Hampstead, then either circle line or a combination of Jubilee and Bakerloo lines round to Paddington, and the Heathrow Express to Heathrow. Not only is this much more expensive though, it would still take around 2 hours all told (if you assume you get unlucky and just miss a bus/train). Personally unless your flight from Heathrow is a very cheap one I still wouldn't risk it.
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Answer 2
The answer is "No", it's inconceivable.
Five hours would be 50/50.
You can see literally 100s of references on the www...
https://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/heathrow_luton_bus_transfer.htm
The absolute minimum time with no contingency between flights that you should contemplate making a transfer between Heathrow and Luton is 4.5 hours.
Note that they mean the ABSOLUTE minimum time, allowing for nothing.
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