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Old 24th January 2005 | 13:59
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Arrow and so is Heathrow ...

V1 Rotate ... maybe they are seriously looking at sleeping space for the immigration area ..

Airport changes

The world's busiest airports are having to change their terminal buildings to accommodate the A380.

Heathrow is spending £450m on preparing itself for the arrival of the A380, which will arrive and depart from Terminal 3.

"The A380 is critical for us," Eryl Smith, Heathrow's director of business strategy, planning and development told the Press Association.

"It will change the face of Heathrow and the face of long haul travel."

Controversial subsidies

Without government assistance, the A380 would probably never have been built.

Billions of euros have been handed over in "launch aid loans" in recent years - under generous repayment terms - to assist Airbus's development of the A380.

Airbus has downplayed the cost of the project despite the fact it could run as much as 1.5bn euros over budget.

"That sounds quite a lot of money until you realise you are dealing with a programme which is about 11bn euros," commercial director John Leahy told the BBC.
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