Can I transfer from Luton to Heathrow in three hours?

12/16/2020 6:47:03 PM

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.

1/10/2021 4:45:45 PM

Added warning: read the whole answer before you read the first lines which discuss road transport.

Rome2Rio says the road part of this journey will take an hour and a half. Going by taxi or private car will halve the time, and double the cost.

Remember that the time estimates do not include time to stand in line to clear immigration and customs at Luton, nor time to get to the bus stand at Luton, nor time to stand in line to get from the underground station to your terminal at LHR, nor time to stand in line to check in, nor time to stand in line to pass security. And it’s possible your airline wants you to check in at LHR earlier than you’d arrive even if everything went swimmingly.

Your tickets are probably independent, as I doubt any airline would sell you these two flights on one ticket because of the significant chance you’ll miss the LHR connection.

You can see where I’m going with this. This is a very tight connection. Because there’s a significant chance you’ll miss the LHR flight (and therefore have to buy a new ticket to your destination and maintain yourself until the new flight), I think this is a bad bet, and I wouldn’t attempt it.

12/15/2020 4:49:37 PM

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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