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posted by [personal profile] alexist at 12:03pm on 28/03/2008 under
Says it all, I think!

"After weeks of advance hoopla trumpeting the opening of London’s Heathrow Airport new, high-tech Terminal 5, the facility opened in something less than glory. Initially, British Airways, which has sole use of the $8.7 billion terminal, boasted to customers that “everything has been streamlined and designed to make your journey through the terminal calm and relaxed.” But after a series of baggage delays in the morning, the airline canceled 34 flights and suspended baggage check-in. By late afternoon, the airline acknowledged that the opening day had been marred by problems with “car parking provision,” “delays in staff security screening” and “baggage performance issues.”"
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posted by [identity profile] deerfold.livejournal.com at 01:20pm on 28/03/2008
Well at least the new underground station and bus routes are working well. Which is just as well as plenty of people seem to need by ways other than by plane.
 
posted by [identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com at 01:23pm on 28/03/2008
It takes a certain kind of stupid to open the new terminal before giving most of the staff the security passes they need to work in it.
 
posted by [identity profile] rangerchris.livejournal.com at 05:58pm on 28/03/2008
I found it intriguing that the airports operator itself, BAA, weren't commenting and letting BA take all the flack. On PM this eve, they finally got a brief comment from the BAA press office saying everything went "as expected"...!?

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