HEATHROW

[ExSimGuy]

As one who has flown through many airports - LHR, LGW, EDI, as well as airports in the US and the middle-east, LHR takes the biscuit.

I hope he manages to get some (albeit token) satisfaction. LHR security appears to have no consideration for getting passengers from "landside to airside". Despite the obvious reasons for getting pax to spend time airside (all the "shopping opportunities", and the revenue from the airside "so-called-duty-free" outlets that, despite the lack of UK VAT, and, in the case of the booze shops, the lack of excise duty, are hardly cheaper than UK high-street shops. Presumably, the difference goes in "ground rent" for the outlets which is charged by BAA)

It's a disgrace, an insult to the intelligence, just a way of screwing the travelling public.

And how much of this "bounty" goes to support air traffic control costs, emergency services, police security? Since it was privatised, LHR is just a cash-cow to the shareholders and a total abomination to the travelleing public (including the "departure tax" of around $50 longhaul, which is usually "hidden" in the cost of your ticket - check the "taxes" box on your ticket and ask what each one is!)

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