Queen Opens New Heathrow Terminal
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A committee of MPs has called for the break-up of airport operator BAA, saying that its dominance has proved stifling for competition. (article 13)
The queen and her husband , Prince Philip, toured the light-filled structure, which will begin operating on March 27 with the arrival of a British Airways flight from Hong Kong. (article 5)
The airport had been designed to handle 45 million passengers per year and has struggled with record passenger numbers that have risen to 68 million per year. (article 5)
For British Airways passengers running late on their arrival at Heathrow's gleaming new Terminal 5, life is about to get more - rather than less - difficult. (article 8)
The days of hoping to being able to get through security quickly and make a mad dash to the departure gate will be over once T5 opens for business on March 27. (article 8)
The $4.3bn terminal, set to begin operating on 27 March, will offer extra passenger capacity but no more flights. (article 2)
A major security alert has taken place at Heathrow airport as a man with a rucksack scaled the perimeter fence and ran into the path of an aircraft. (article 9)
After 20 years trying to get off the runway, Heathrow's Terminal 5 is about to open and promises a better experience for passengers. (article 6)
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Terminal, Heathrow, Airport, BAA, passengers |
Source articles
- Heathrow terminal splits opinion (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 828 words)
- Queen opens new Heathrow terminal (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 806 words)
- New era for British Airways at T5 (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 796 words)
- Terminal 5: Holding Pattern -Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 03/15/2008, 566 words)
- Queen Opens New Heathrow Terminal (Washington Post, 03/14/2008, 395 words)
- What makes a good airport? (BBC News, 03/12/2008, 2077 words)
- Back to reality at Heathrow's T1 (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 683 words)
- BA plans to stiffen policy on T5 late arrivals (ft.com, 03/14/2008, 453 words)
- Man arrested over Heathrow alert (BBC News, 03/13/2008, 452 words)
- Putting Heathrow's T5 to the test (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 648 words)
- Cattle queues give way at last to civil aviation (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk, 03/15/2008, 299 words)
- Mammoth Heathrow project fuels pride (BBC News, 03/14/2008, 813 words)
- MPs call for break-up of BAA (BBC News, 03/15/2008, 438 words)
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