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News The direct flights from London Heathrow to Bangalore begin on Sunday 30 October and the Boeing 777 service will run five times per week each way. As we already operate direct flights from San Francisco to London Heathrow we also see it as linking...
[26 Oct 2005]
News Around 87 per cent of flights (both arrivals and departures) are due to run today, with a similar proportion operating tomorrow. So far 299 flights have been cancelled due to the problems which first emerged on Thursday when a number of issues...
[31 Mar 2008]
Photo Heathrow Terminal 3 and Emirates airlines are running a six-month trial of tagging luggage with RFID chips on flights to and from Dubai. Baggage is loaded on and off flights in 'tins'. Share your own views of Heathrow at atlarge.com
[14 Feb 2008]
Photo silicon.com has been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at BAA's brand new Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow ahead of its official opening for British Airways (BA) flights on 27 March. There is also a section for flight crew where they can check...
[12 Feb 2008]
News British Airways (BA) confirmed 80 per cent of scheduled flights will be running from T5 today, including all long-haul destinations. Passengers for flights scheduled for today are now able to check in baggage despite this being suspended on...
[28 Mar 2008]
News Although the problem was fixed quickly it led to check-in delays and 11 flights to European destinations were cancelled, with Heathrow's terminal one the worst affected location. A BA spokesman told silicon.com: "The actual problem was fixed fairly...
[08 Sep 2003]
News British Airways (BA) - the sole airline using T5 - had to cancel 33 flights (departing and arriving) before 14:00(GMT) due to the baggage system problems, although the majority of delayed passengers were moved onto later flights.
[27 Mar 2008]
News Travellers waiting to board UK-bound flights will now be able to access the larger international departure lounge at Terminal One providing they are willing to undergo the biometric checks. British Airways, BMI and Aer Lingus all offer domestic...
[08 Feb 2008]
Round-Up BAA, the owner of Heathrow, said yesterday there was a "minor problem with log-ons of the baggage system which affected the baggage on some outgoing flights". A "minor problem" which led to 33 flights being cancelled.
[28 Mar 2008]
News Most likely travellers may be boarding flights out of the UK or they may mistakenly assume their laptop has been stolen rather than lost, given the airport also plays host to "people who make their living stealing bags off trolleys", according to...
[01 Sep 2006]
Comment It's now late Saturday and there are still problems - cancelled flights, missing baggage, etc. Doing a band-playing, big-bang move of so many flights and services to the new terminal was a fool-hardy move in the first place - they should have...
[03 Apr 2008]
News The number of flights arriving in Beijing is predicted to increase by 70 per cent during the Games with peak days of around 1,900 flights, compared to the usual 1,150 average. All the tech at Heathrow T5…
[31 Mar 2008]
News According to the BBC, 100 flights at Heathrow Airport were directly affected by the fault as no planes were allowed to take off for 40 minutes. A computer fault delayed a number of flights out of UK airports this morning.
[24 Aug 2005]
News British Airways alone has cancelled 14 return flights to Europe from Gatwick and Heathrow, according to reports. Short haul flights to Europe appear to be worst hit. A software problem at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) centre in Swanwick...
[17 May 2002]
whitepaper Both these airports use CEGELEC AEG's automated in-flight catering systems to simultaneously handle and manage hundreds of catering trolleys from inbound and for outbound flights, as do London's Heathrow and Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek International...
[12 Jun 2004]
News For a start, the flights aren't completely free, as customers will have to pay airport tax and any travel insurance in order to get to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Nice, Paris, Prague, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Washington.
[12 May 2004]
News The cheap ticket internet company is to set up retail kiosks in each of Heathrow's terminals to give travelers access to its e-tail services while waiting for their promised flights. Lastminute.com is expanding from clicks into bricks to give...
[16 Aug 2001]
News The flights leave from Heathrow on Saturday 15 January and return Monday 17 January. The lucky winners will win return flights to Barcelona and accommodation for the weekend as well as entry to the launch party for the new car at the Museu D'Art de...
[05 Jan 2000]
News The outage meant delays to 21 British Airways flights and disruption for thousands of travellers. But closer to home the biggest victim so far has been British Airways, which lost the use of around half its check-in desk computers at Heathrow's...
[05 May 2004]
News Work is also progressing on the new Terminal Five at Heathrow, where BA will switch all its Heathrow flights to from 2008. This is currently being used at Edinburgh and will be trialled at Manchester and London Heathrow later this year.
[08 Sep 2004]
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