Education aBc
164 Old Road,
Oxford OX3 8SY, U.K.

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(0)7779 021464
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Additional Travel Information for Groups

This page should be read in conjunction with the main Travel Information Page.

Although most of the students attending our courses come as individuals, we do have a number of groups of students travelling together, normally with accompanying group leaders. This page gives additional information for those groups.

• Arriving at London Heathrow Airport
• The Faster Way to Clear Immigration: Group Travel on Arrival at Heathrow Terminals 3 and 4
• Arriving at an airport other than London Heathrow

Arriving at London Heathrow Airport

On designated arrival days, transfers are arranged from London Heathrow airport. Our staff meet students and groups as they come through to the Arrivals Hall after passing through Customs.

On arrival, you must look for our staff member, who will normally be carrying a sign with the Education aBc Oxford logo and name on it.

If you have booked an airport transfer to or from Heathrow for flights arriving or departing between 10h and 18h on the designated arrival and departure days, a member of our staff will be at the airport to help you. Please look for someone carrying the Education aBc logo.
If you have still not met the driver, then call us on 07779 021464. Please do not leave the area of the COACH STOPS. We will arrange to collect you.

If you have booked an airport transfer outside the normal arrival times, the driver will be waiting with the coach. The coach has to wait in the West Ramp Coach Park, where the driver informs the coach park attendant of the time, terminal and flight number for the group he is collecting.
Once the flight has landed, and the passengers have gone through Customs, the coach park attendant is informed, and the coach is then permitted to go to pick up outside the terminal building of the relevant terminal.
The coach is not allowed to come directly to the terminal building, and the driver cannot go into the terminal to meet guests. The vehicle must not be left unattended.
Please proceed outside the terminal building, following signs to CHARTER COACH PICK UP
The coach company name is MOTTS TRAVEL.
The coach should also be displaying the Education aBc logo.
If you have still not met the driver, then call us on 07779 021464. Please do not leave the area of the COACH STOPS. We will arrange to collect you. The coach driver will ring the airport before he leaves Oxford, so he or she will know if your flight is unavoidably delayed.

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The Faster Way to Clear Immigration: Group Travel on Arrival at Heathrow Terminals 3 and 4

The Group Travel scheme is a way to start your trip to the UK with fast-tracked clearance at Immigration. It costs nothing, and will make your arrival in the UK quicker and easier.

Passengers travelling together as a group have a separate, designated area in the Immigration Arrivals Hall. They are also allocated their own Immigration Officer, offering a personal service to help them to pass more quickly through UK Visa Immigration Controls.

All passengers using the scheme are still subject to full immigration control procedures, but processing them as a single group saves time. Over 200,000 passengers used the scheme last year.

Any passengers travelling together can use the scheme. This includes students.

What happens on arrival? Those in a group can simply go to the highly visible area signposted "Group Travel" in the Immigration Hall. Any recognised Group Leader can be questioned on behalf of the group by the Immigration Officer.

This is a free service offered by the Border and Immigration Agency and UK Visas. You don't need to fill out any forms, and no enrolment is required to use the scheme. Research indicates that using the Group Travel scheme could save you 90% of your queuing time if used during the busy, high season periods. A study conducted by UK airlines reveals that up to 10% of passengers travel in groups to the UK. UK Immigration statistics show that only 2% of travel groups use the scheme at the moment - so take advantage of it now!

You do not need to contact the airport prior to starting your journey to the UK. However, if you would like to find out more information about the scheme, please use the contact details below:

The scheme is currently only available at London Heathrow Terminals 3 & 4.

Heathrow Terminal 3

T: +44 208 745 6900
E: IND_UKIS_TN3_ATG_TEAM@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Heathrow Terminal 4

T: +44 208 745 4700

UKVisas

T: +44 845 010 5555
E: Use the online form at www.ukvisas.gov.uk/enquiries.

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Arriving at an airport other than London Heathrow

Gatwick
If you have booked an airport transfer, the driver will be waiting with the coach. The coach has to wait in the coach park at the South Terminal until shortly after your flight has landed. The coach will then be released to the Coach Road, at the appropriate terminal.
Please follow the signs for COACHES (at North Terminal) or COACH STATION (at South Terminal). The Coach Marshall will call the coach park to request release of the coach, if it has not already arrived. If there is no Coach Marshall, you can use the direct telephone link to the coach park, stating your flight number, that you are travelling to Oxford, and the coach company name – which is MOTTS TRAVEL.
The coach should also be displaying the Education aBc logo.
If you have still not met the driver, then call us on 07779 021464. Please do not leave the area of the COACH STOPS. We will arrange to collect you. The coach driver will ring the airport before he leaves Oxford, so he or she will know if your flight is unavoidably delayed.

Stansted
Please proceed to the COACH/BUS area, where the coach should be waiting for you.
MOTTS TRAVEL. The coach company name is MOTTS TRAVEL.
The coach should also be displaying the Education aBc logo.
If you have still not met the driver, then call us on 07779 021464. Please do not leave the area of the COACH STOPS. We will arrange to collect you. The coach driver will ring the airport before he leaves Oxford, so he or she will know if your flight is unavoidably delayed.

Luton
The coach will be either outside the terminal building or in the coach bays

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