{"id":15773,"date":"2026-10-05T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:28:57","slug":"british-airways-unveils-next-phase-of-heathrow-lounge-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15773","title":{"rendered":"British Airways unveils next phase of Heathrow lounge transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from British Airways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>London, England, October 5, 2026 &#8211;<\/strong> British Airways has unveiled the next stage of its Heathrow lounge transformation, with this announcement marking the first phase of a wider programme that will see every lounge at Heathrow redesigned over the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>One of the airline\u2019s largest-ever lounge investments, the programme includes a new lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5 C Gates, a complete redevelopment of the Terminal 5 Arrivals lounge and, in collaboration with American Airlines, a new First check-in experience at Heathrow Terminal 3.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is part of the airline\u2019s wider transformation of the customer experience, improving every stage of the journey from airport arrival to boarding and arrival at the destination.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mediacentre.britishairways.com\/news\/05102026\/british-airways-unveils-next-phase-of-heathrow-lounge-transformation-with-new-terminal-5-lounge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Airways Heathrow Lounge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from British Airways London, England, October 5, 2026 &#8211; British Airways has unveiled the next stage of its Heathrow lounge transformation, with this announcement marking the first phase of a wider programme that will see every lounge at Heathrow redesigned over the coming years. One of the airline\u2019s largest-ever lounge investments, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,3965,89,5637,7929,5500,5676,10169,10182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-european-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-international-news","category-news","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15775,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}