British Airways Concorde Room, London Heathrow : Good experience

For this long weekend in New York, our journey begins in the Concorde Room at London Heathrow, an exclusive space reserved for First Class passengers, unlike the Galleries First lounge open to Oneworld Emerald passengers.

As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:

#	Type	Review
1	Diary	Long weekend in New York
2	Lounge	British Airways Concorde Room, London Heathrow T5
3	Flight	British Airways First, Londres Heathrow – New-York JFK, Boeing 777-200
4	Hotel	The New-York EDITION, Loft Suite
5	Diary	New-York J1, Midtown
6	Restaurant	Restaurant Daniel, New-York
7	Diary	New-York J2, Brooklyn
8	Diary	New-York J3, Soho
9	Diary	New-York J4, Central Park
10	Lounge	British Airways Concorde Room, New-York JFK T7
11	Flight	British Airways First Suite, New-York JFK – Londres Heathrow, Boeing 777-300

Today’s itinerary

Ground course and check-in

We start our trip 3h30 before the departure of our flight by leaving our home in Uber. I now use the Uber Reserve option which allows me to have the guarantee of a car.

After a short drive, we arrived at Heathrow terminal 5, which was quite full at the beginning of the morning.

Since we fly First class, we have access to The First Wing, the check-in area for Oneworld Emerald and First Class BA passengers.

Quickly, we are taken care of by a charming check-in agent who will check our VeriFLY passes (the solution used by BA for pre-checking COVID documents) and then our luggage is tagged and checked for NYC.

We are invited to use the Concorde Room, a lounge for the exclusive use of British Airways First Class passengers.

We then proceed to the security area reserved for The First Wing passengers, then arrive directly in the Galleries First lounge.

Location

The lounge is located in the Galleries South lounge complex on the second floor across from the Galleries First lounge. In addition to access via The First Wing, a discreet entrance is located just past Fast Track South on the right.