BA moves flights to T5
[4th June 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 will get busier from tomorrow as British Airways switches more long haul flights to the new terminal.
BA will be hoping there’s no repeat of the long queues at the airport and baggage handling problems that marked the opening of T5.
From Thursday, Terminal 5 will have to cope with another 15 daily departures and 15 daily arrivals. The flights being transferred to T5 from Terminal 4 are the eight daily services from Heathrow to New York JFK, plus daily flights to Abuja and Lagos in Nigeria, Bangalore, Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, and Phoenix in Arizona.
BA originally scheduled the move of long haul flights from T4 to T5 at the end of April but the disastrous opening of the new terminal prompted the airline to reconsider.
BA’s remaining long haul flights will now transfer to T5 in two further phases – the first on 17th September and the second at the end of October.
On 17th September another 30 daily departures and 30 daily arrivals will transfer to T5. They include flights to Accra, Dar Es Salaam, Lusaka, Entebbe, Luanda, Mauritius, Nairobi, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Bahrain, Doha, Kuwait, Tel-Aviv, Mumbai, Nassau, Grand Cayman, Providenciales, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Baltimore, Washington, Dallas, Newark, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto and Mexico City.
The phased transfer of flights to T5 suggests that BA is still not confident the terminal can cope with a busier schedule. But in a press statement BA maintains: “Terminal 5 is working well, and this phased move has been planned in the interests of our passengers and the smooth operation of Heathrow over the busy summer period.”
Written by: Nick Purdom
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