Airline: British Airways
Flight #: BA949
Route: MUC-LHR
Class: Economy
Seat: 15A
Date: Sunday 30th November 2025
Having enjoyed a great long weekend exploring Munich and its multitude of Christmas markets (read about that here and here), it was time to head home. Our return flight was back to London Heathrow, once again with British Airways (BA) in Euro Traveller and so after a 40–45-minute S-bahn ride from the city centre, we headed towards the BA check-in. We’d got to Terminal 1 just over two hours before our flight, around 1345, and I was glad we had as it was quite a walk from the S-bahn station to the check-in and bag drop in zone A, before then heading back to security in zone B.
After getting in our steps walking to the far end of the terminal and then part way back, we got to the security queue just after 1400 and unfortunately joined quite a long queue. Initially this was moving at a reasonable speed, however midway through our time queuing one of the security lanes was closed mid-rush slowing the whole thing down. Munich also unfortunately had the old-style scanners that required everyone to take their liquids and electronics out of their bags and so after all of this we made it through security just before 1420, 35 minutes after we had arrived at the airport.
From security it was straight into the queue for passport control, with Terminal 1’s B, C and D gates all being for non-Schengen flights. Thankfully this was much quicker than security and we were through into the departure lounge at 1425, just as the earlier BA flight to Heathrow was finishing boarding. We didn’t have long to wait in departures as our aircraft arrived on its inbound flight just 10 minutes later, parking up on the stand adjacent to the one that its sister aircraft had just departed.
Our aircraft for the flight back to Heathrow was G-TTNW, a year and a half year old Airbus A320neo which had been delivered to BA in June 2024. The aircraft had started the day with a round trip from London to Newcastle, before operating the outbound flight to Munich after its return to Heathrow. Boarding started around 1505, with our group, group 5, boarding around ten minutes later and joining the slow-moving queue on the jet bridge. We were onboard the aircraft at 1522 but unfortunately became part of the problem as one of our seats, 15B, was occupied by one half of a couple with a baby. With this couple in seats 15B and C, and a mother and small child in 15 E & F, Beth and I decided that we were happy to sit separately and so ended up with me in my planned window seat 15A, and Beth in 15D on the other side of the aisle.
Seemingly BA’s A320neo cabins have a bit more space as there was certainly more legroom on the way out, with the seats also having both USB-A and USB-C sockets on the back of the seats in front down by your knees. The seats also have the usual coat hoots, reading lights and air vents, so are nothing special, but the extra little bit of leg room really did make a difference. Boarding was complete at 1535, however there was then a delay as we waited for a pushback tug to arrive, with pushback happening around 15 minutes later, still a few minutes ahead of schedule. Our taxi to the runway started just a few minutes later and our route to the active runway took us past Lufthansa Regional’s D-ACNO and D-ACNX parked up on remote stands for the winter with extra wrapping around key parts such as the engines.
As we joined the queue for departure, I was able to watch a few flights depart ahead of us including Lufthansa’s D-AISJ and D-AIUF departing on flights LH2194 and LH3430 to Bremen and Gothenburg respectively. Brussels Airlines’ OO-SNQ also snook out ahead of us on SN2468 to its home base of Brussels, and after this we lined up and departed from runway 26R at 1607. As we climbed, we were treated to a great view of the Alps before we entered the clouds which then covered the ground for a large part of our flight home. Shortly after departure the crew came round with a free bottle of water and piece of shortbread for everyone, before the wider for-purchase service started.
Around 35 minutes after departure, as we passed to the south of Bonn, I was able to see easyJet’s G-EJCI below us heading in the opposite direction as it operated flight U26541 from Gatwick to Innsbruck and just over 15 minutes later I was able to see the UK and French coasts through some gaps in the cloud as we crossed the Belgian coast near Bruges. A few minutes later we reached the top of our decent from 36,000ft with an ETA for landing being given of 30-35 minutes. Our approach took us over the North Sea before a left turn brought us in over Essex, before joining the S-bend approach over Central London. This took us over the Lea Valley reservoirs and London City Airport before we lined up on the long approach to Heathrow over Southwark.
Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the aircraft to enjoy the views of Central London, but as we passed through the bottom of the clouds I was able to see Clapham and the great expanse of Richmond Park, before we landed on Heathrow’s 27R at 1640 local time, 25 minutes early, after a flight time of just over 90 minutes. Our taxi in to stand 524, a remote stand by Terminal 5A took us past Terminal 3 with lots of Virgin Atlantic aircraft visible along with the odd BA and a LATAM aircraft awaiting their next flights. We parked on stand at 1649 with the doors opening a few minutes later, although getting off the aircraft and onto a bus took a while. Getting to the terminal and through passport control was nice and quick, with us reaching baggage claim at 1711, just over 20 minutes since we had parked on stand. Our bags took another 15 minutes or so and we were down on the Piccadilly line platform at 1733, 43 minutes after we had landed, so not too bad for Heathrow.
Overall, this was another comfortable and uneventful flight with British Airways in their Euro Traveller cabin, a good way to end our trip to Munich. The airport experience at Munich wasn’t great with everything taking a bit longer than it should, but this didn’t detract from BA’s great crew, good service and on time arrival into London. All in all a good flight and when combined with our other flights with BA in 2025, a reliable offering when flying from London to European destinations.
Lounge 0*
Seat/Facilities 3*
Food 3*
Service 5*
Punctuality 5*
Overall Rating 16/25 (read about my rating system here!)
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