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I guess you're not familiar with London? Are you serious? With Terminal 5 the biggest contruction project in living memory you want to move somewhere else? That is sooo not gonna happen.
The third runway will be built between 27R / 09L and the motorways to the north. The area is not heavily urbanised believe me I've been through most of it. The big problem will of course be all the NIMBYs who will be on the new flightpath.
I guess you're not familiar with London? Are you serious? With Terminal 5 the biggest contruction project in living memory you want to move somewhere else? That is sooo not gonna happen.
The third runway will be built between 27R / 09L and the motorways to the north. The area is not heavily urbanised believe me I've been through most of it. The big problem will of course be all the NIMBYs who will be on the new flightpath.
Paxing All Over The World
- Successive Brit governments bottled out of the decision to build third runway
- BAA built T4 to make the demand for 3rd runway stronger
- Successive Brit governments bottled out of the decision to build third runway
- BAA built T5 to make the demand for 3rd runway stronger
- Brit gov trying to do something
- ad infinitum whilst all other European countries have already built more runways and/or new fields.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Hmmm, thinking laterally, if they did build a 4 mile tunnel, instead of a putting a roof on it, then they´d have a nice 4 mile piece of straight motorway where they could build a nice new long runway........ 
Paxing All Over The World
No comments on this place have been written during the recent hoo-hah as, in all probability, there was not much to be said! However, on Sunday 20th arriving into T1 from Berlin at about 21:00 ... the airport that was now 'running normally' certainly was!
The T1 baggage hall was awash with bags, dozens pulled off the carousels and sitting around on trolleys and cluttering up the hall, many with new routing labels on them.
The hall was packed and the escalator delivering more every minute. The indicator board (to advise which carousel) was full and four entries had several garbage characters so as to render the entry invalid. For example there is no carousel '54', although it might be helpful if they did have that many.
The board was not updated for nine minutes after I started watching it and then the four entries were replaced by 'Please Wait' for another eight minutes.
Yes, it was good to know that the airport was fully back to normal. Now to open the duty free ... and then
The T1 baggage hall was awash with bags, dozens pulled off the carousels and sitting around on trolleys and cluttering up the hall, many with new routing labels on them.
The hall was packed and the escalator delivering more every minute. The indicator board (to advise which carousel) was full and four entries had several garbage characters so as to render the entry invalid. For example there is no carousel '54', although it might be helpful if they did have that many.
The board was not updated for nine minutes after I started watching it and then the four entries were replaced by 'Please Wait' for another eight minutes.
Yes, it was good to know that the airport was fully back to normal. Now to open the duty free ... and then
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Air Canada announce Heathrow - Edmonton
Stolen from another forum but it seems the long rumoured new European
route from Edmonton (YEG) is Heathrow by Air Canada 767.
I believe it is 3 a week in the winter and daily from April.
As Mrs Pete has relatives in Alberta it has more than a passing interest
for me and I hope the service does well.
I believe that this is not the first time YEG has been connected to
LHR but the previous service ceased a while a go - was it an add on?
Pete
route from Edmonton (YEG) is Heathrow by Air Canada 767.
I believe it is 3 a week in the winter and daily from April.
As Mrs Pete has relatives in Alberta it has more than a passing interest
for me and I hope the service does well.
I believe that this is not the first time YEG has been connected to
LHR but the previous service ceased a while a go - was it an add on?
Pete
Originally Posted by OltonPete
I believe that this is not the first time YEG has been connected to
LHR but the previous service ceased a while a go - was it an add on?
LHR but the previous service ceased a while a go - was it an add on?
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Interesting news article here
http://www.uk-airport-news.info/heat...ws-290806a.htm
make of it what you will.
http://www.uk-airport-news.info/heat...ws-290806a.htm
make of it what you will.
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I guess the govenment can protest. However, they cannnot force a company into spending millions on a project (2nd rwy SS) that the company doen't want to spend. Be interesting if the OfT decide to force a break up of the BAA whether SS would then build a runway that its customer's do not wish to pay for.
Or is all this just BA stating their preference?
Or is all this just BA stating their preference?
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Heathrow Terminal 4 BA checkins suspended 02/09
Heathrow breaks under the strain .... again ..... Poor BA!
Operational problems at Terminal 4 - 2 September
Terminal 4 is experiencing operational problems today as a result of severe congestion in the baggage system caused by the high volume of bags being processed. As a result the terminal building is heavily congested and check-in for the time being, has been suspended. BAA and British Airways are working closely together to resolve this issue and sincerely regret any inconvenience this is causing or may cause to passengers
Operational problems at Terminal 4 - 2 September
Terminal 4 is experiencing operational problems today as a result of severe congestion in the baggage system caused by the high volume of bags being processed. As a result the terminal building is heavily congested and check-in for the time being, has been suspended. BAA and British Airways are working closely together to resolve this issue and sincerely regret any inconvenience this is causing or may cause to passengers
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LOL!!
Happens every morning at CWL regardless!! Too many bags going through an inadequate system.....
I don't think the airport realize that increasing front of house capacity, means the back of house will suffer even more!!!!
LOL!!
LOL!!
LOL!!
Where do we get them from??!!
All the work going on at the moment is to accommodate pax, yet their bags go through the same old system!!!!! It will be updated, but will be the LAST thing to be updated!!!!
Oh joy, oh joy........
Happens every morning at CWL regardless!! Too many bags going through an inadequate system.....
I don't think the airport realize that increasing front of house capacity, means the back of house will suffer even more!!!!
LOL!!
LOL!!
LOL!!
Where do we get them from??!!
All the work going on at the moment is to accommodate pax, yet their bags go through the same old system!!!!! It will be updated, but will be the LAST thing to be updated!!!!
Oh joy, oh joy........
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happens at STN every night 30-40 flights arrive within an hour
between 2245 2345 from int dests and only 5 baggage belts
you wait ages for bags on a bad night upto 1hr 30min
between 2245 2345 from int dests and only 5 baggage belts
you wait ages for bags on a bad night upto 1hr 30min
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I am travelling from Australia to Switzerland and France next week as are a few colleagues. All of us are frequent travellers and committed QF/BA customers. But this time some of us are defecting to SQ or CX so we can avoid Heathrow. Agents tell us that many others are doing the same thing. Since baggage/processing problems look set to continue indefinitely, are we the harbingers of a more or less permanent change to Heathrow's position as a primary choice for transit between Europe and the rest of the world? What might this mean for BA?