Any Smoking Area T3?

Flying today to LAX on Virgin UC - are there any smoking areas in Terminal 3? Very long day otherwise. Thanks in anticipation.

Not inside the terminal I'm afraid, only outside the terminal before you pass through the security checkpoint!

[buns]

There are no smoking areas once you have entered the Terminal.

Apparently there is a way to get from airside back outside, but it does need you using the UC channel to get back in good time

buns

Thanks a mil, I have my nicotine patch at the ready!

As Buns says, it helps to be able to use the VS wing ... it goes something like this:

- once in T3 head for flight connections and follow the route through to flight connections security
- but bypass that by following the extreme right hand side (IIRC) and through the exit door
- this will deposit you in immigration - it helps to have IRIS at busy times
- then into baggage
- thence out to T3 arrivals and the forecourt
- puff puff ii)
- go back into T3 as a departing passenger

I have heard that passing through security can be problematic, basically they think you're in the terminal so your BP beeps at security and you may be sent back to VS check in to get it wiped and a new one issued.

The whole thing can take 15-20 mins to exit, leavened if you can use the VS wing to gain re-entry!

I find it strange that such a large international airport can't accomodate for a smoking area airside yet a smaller regional airport such as Manchester can.
It's such a god send in so many way, obvious reasons aside it's better if there's a dealy, I remember when there wasn't one and you'd have to escort a huge amount of people out through immigration many times.

Yes Lizz, it's another example of the unfriendly nature of T3 LHR! In the US it is so much easier, I have to say even though a lot of US security is pants, exiting and re-entering is a doddle.

I've only seen the smoking provision at Manchester in T2 down at the hell-hole that is Gate 300. A nice caged-in outdoor area next to where the buses pick up pax to take them to remote stands... hardly luxury, but still a provision of sorts I guess. (Unsure if you would find this area either, unless you were unlucky enough to be departing from Gate 300 at MAN).

I'm not a smoker, but you would have thought that airports would have been exempted in part from the smoking laws that most countries seem to have now. Flying makes a lot of people nervous - so let them have a smokers room in the terminal where they can have a cigarette airside. Better for them to calm their nerves on tobacco rather than at the bar - then cause trouble on the flight as they are drunk.

I've only seen the smoking provision at Manchester in T2 down at the hell-hole that is Gate 300. A nice caged-in outdoor area next to where the buses pick up pax to take them to remote stands... hardly luxury, but still a provision of sorts I guess. (Unsure if you would find this area either, unless you were unlucky enough to be departing from Gate 300 at MAN).

I'm not a smoker, but you would have thought that airports would have been exempted in part from the smoking laws that most countries seem to have now. Flying makes a lot of people nervous - so let them have a smokers room in the terminal where they can have a cigarette airside. Better for them to calm their nerves on tobacco rather than at the bar - then cause trouble on the flight as they are drunk.

I'd ban the bar if I could. I can't count the times we've missed a slot due to someone unwilling to be removed from the drinking hole. There is booze on the plane too

The longer the person sitting next to you - especially in coach - has been without a cigarette the better from a non smokers point of nose

If you exempted airports then what about train and bus stations (long journeys from both of those)?

BTW even if there was an exemption in the Act the airport operator could still decide NOT to apply the exemption. For example Hospices are exempt from the provisions of the Act but the owner decides whether to apply it ot not.

As to people refusing to move from the bar there is a simple option available to the airlines - off load them.