Heathrow Airport faces busiest day of Easter today
Mar 30, 2012, 3:57 am
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Heathrow Airport faces busiest day of Easter today
Glad I am not traveling until Sunday...although my flight has been Y0 for a month...
Heathrow Airport faces busiest day of Easter today
Heathrow Airport faces busiest day of Easter today
Heathrow expects to handle 220,000 passengers today, with the west London airport handling more than 1.6 million between today and Good Friday and a total of 3.4 million between today and Sunday April 15.
Mar 30, 2012, 6:35 am
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On the evidence available today it is not a happy place to be. Queues everywhere and trollies and like gold dust. The ticket offices for the tube and HEX are vile with few staff and even fewer ticket machines that work. And this is not yet Olympic season.
Mar 30, 2012, 5:16 pm
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Glad I was just on a flight in from DUB, so no need to queue for passport control. However, the experience with the dump that is the UK/ROI portion of T1 has given me a new appreciation for the parts of T4 outside the SkyTeam lounge.
My flights around Easter (BA to/from MUC) are showing 9 seats in most fare classes, so hopefully I've picked dates that aren't so insane.
My flights around Easter (BA to/from MUC) are showing 9 seats in most fare classes, so hopefully I've picked dates that aren't so insane.
Mar 30, 2012, 6:31 pm
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Landed in T5 yesterday morning and immigration was busier than I had ever seen, people queuing way outside the actual immigration area around the corner, total chaos.
EU immigration took almost 1h, non EU looked like 2-3h!
Makes you think what it will be like for the Olympics
EU immigration took almost 1h, non EU looked like 2-3h!
Makes you think what it will be like for the Olympics
Mar 31, 2012, 5:58 am
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On a Friday morning a couple of weeks ago the ticket hall for the tube was totally packed with people queing up to buy tickets. They finally urged people to just board the train and pay at their destination.
Apr 6, 2012, 3:23 am
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T3 Immigration is fine
With widespread reports of long waits @ LHR, I arrived with trepidation this am.
Happy to report Good Friday wait time at 09:00 GMT was non-existent. Waited 3 minutes! Max.
Happy to report Good Friday wait time at 09:00 GMT was non-existent. Waited 3 minutes! Max.
Apr 9, 2012, 1:34 pm
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Apr 9, 2012, 1:50 pm
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See:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/4863983/
Apr 9, 2012, 2:02 pm
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Was in STN last week and was surprised to see a BA747 parked, until I saw it was cargo! My guess is that may be what you saw too.
See:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/4863983/
See:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/4863983/
Apr 9, 2012, 3:15 pm
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