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Mar 12, 2014 | 10:12 am

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...-meltdown.html

London Heathrow airport’s new 2.5 billion-pound ($4.2 billion) Terminal 2 will limit passenger numbers to 2,500 or 10 percent of capacity when operations start on June 4 to avoid the havoc of the hub’s last major opening.

The building will still be capped at 6,000 people departing daily at the end of June as clients including United Continental Holdings (UAL) Inc. and Air Canada (AC/A) move in, with all 26 carriers due to base flights there not scheduled to be fully embedded until November, Operations Director Brian Woodhead said today.

Heathrow suffered an operational meltdown in 2008 when the new Terminal 5, dedicated to British Airways, suffered a baggage-system breakdown that delayed 600 flights at a cost of 16 million pounds in expenses and lost revenue. Terminal 2 has successfully handled 4,500 bags over 90 minutes, well above the anticipated peak of 2,600 items, according to Woodhead.