Arriving Gatwick, next flight Heathrow

BriarFlyer

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I'm looking at an option that involves arriving into LGW 6:25 on a Sunday morning (SIA flight.) Our final destination is Edinburgh but we would have to wait until late afternoon for an Easyjet flight from Gatwick.

There are more options from LHR. How long would you allow to get through immigration on arrival, then transfer to Heathrow (cab or a private transfer) to catch a BA flight? There's a 10:40am flight but is that too tight?
 
I'm looking at an option that involves arriving into LGW 6:25 on a Sunday morning (SIA flight.) Our final destination is Edinburgh but we would have to wait until late afternoon for an Easyjet flight from Gatwick.

There are more options from LHR. How long would you allow to get through immigration on arrival, then transfer to Heathrow (cab or a private transfer) to catch a BA flight? There's a 10:40am flight but is that too tight?
That is way too tight IMHO. Have you looked at BA from LCY ?
That would be easier to do.
 
Not what you are asking @BriarFlyer , but have you thought of training it to Edinburgh? Maybe 5.5 hrs with change in London. I was going to land at LCY and onwards from LHR and was going to catch the train but ended up changing the inbound to LHR.
 
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Am considering the train option -- I do love train travel -- although I've read that Sunday is a bad day to book trains as that's when they're most likely to do track maintenance. Not sure how regularly that happens.

Haven't booked the LGW arrival; it's one of several routes I'm considering as I try to add 2 days to the front-end of our trip. It's points which limits the options.
 
Am considering the train option -- I do love train travel -- although I've read that Sunday is a bad day to book trains as that's when they're most likely to do track maintenance. Not sure how regularly that happens.

Haven't booked the LGW arrival; it's one of several routes I'm considering as I try to add 2 days to the front-end of our trip. It's points which limits the options.
Yeah, Sunday trains are setting yourself up for potential epic failure. It could work or it could go pear shape.

Some years ago, a simple train ride from London Victoria to Brighton for lunch with friends, the scheduled ~1hr ride blew out to 3 as we ventured towards Devon and back to go around rack works….
 

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