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Terminal 5
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Will someone be blamed ...and then get a million quid with their P45?
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£4.6 billion, about 6 years for Terminal 5, you've gotta laugh haven't you. BAA and BA couldn't orgainsie a piss-up in a brewery. :thumb:
likewise after living in Italy for 14 years and seeing the news use anything to criticise britain I can quite imagine the feild day they are having
but then they have one team that checks runway lights and another team to fix them, guess what happens when they forget to fix a STOP light ?.....
oh no we can't do the olympics anymore all the polls have gone home and we aren't capable of doing things on our own or so the BBC implys
The aim should be to reduce the demand for these flights to zero. Had that been the case, we might have got away with not building T5, and certainly would do away with the "need" (even if there was any, which there isn't) of building a third runway and sixth terminal.
You would never get zero demand for these routes. Regardless of demand on these route capacity at Heathrow is full. Heathrow badly needs a new runway, at the moment its causing costly delays and forcing business to use Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt instead of the UK.
They didn't have this fiasco when the opened Hong Kong's new international airport.
If they can manage to build a whole airport out of reclaimed land at Chek Lap Kok why can't BAA manage to open a piddly new terminal properly?
Like balls it is.
Although BAA would like you to believe that bullshit to allow them to ruin more Londoners' lives with 24-hour flying.
It is true that Heathrow airport loses some business to Frankfurt, Paris and others. But it is not to do with the lack of a third runway. It is to do with the fact that Heathrow is nothing more than a godawful shopping mall with runways attached, as all BAA airports tend to be. Passengers genuinely vote Heathrow as the world's worst major airport, and many of those who can avoid travel through it, do.
Incidentallly, if the London-Paris air route has decreased by by 60-70%, we could certainly aim to achieve that for our domestic routes. There are actually a lot of domestic flights from Heathrow. Cut them by two thirds and presto! Plenty of more slots available.
i only flew with them because all the other flights were booked out, big mistake the plane was 90 mins delayed on take off (surprise surprise they blamed delays at T5), and when we got to heathrow we were stuck on the plane for another 30 mins waiting for them to pull their thumb out and get the stairs, complete shambles. thank god i only had hand luggage.
If so pretty piss poor planning.
Passengers were also complaining of the remarkable lack of seating in some areas. In certain places, such as the luggage collection area I think, there were none at all.