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Subject: Re: Terminal 5 - I love it! Posted on: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:25:25 +0100

Jim Ley wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:46:02 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >Erick T. Barkhuis wrote:
> >
> >> Mike O'Sullivan:
> >> > Jim Ley wrote:
> >>
> >> > > And it's a beautiful terminal - the walkway from the plane to the
> >> > > terminal is actually wide enough to walk past one of the stupid idiot
> >> > > people with their ludicrous tug along carry on that on all other
> >> > > walkways I've ever seen completely blocks the walkway.
> >> >
> >> > Curious to know what you've got against bags on wheels?
> >>
> >> He said he had something against narrow walkways.
> >
> >I don't think they're a big problem either. If you're not dragging
> >luggage yourself, it's usually easy to negotiate your way past slower
> >movers.
>
> I never manage it at any of my regular airports - LHR, AMS, JFK, LGW -
> the walkways until T5 ones were all narrow enough that I couldn't skip
> round the slow really annoying people. T5 ones I could, it was great,
> I got off the plane feeling happy and alive - enough to overcome the
> hangover and plane flight to run close to my 6 year old 3mile PB that
> evening.

I've transferred through all those airports frequently and never had a
problem with this. Maybe you need to be more agile, or just ask people
to move out of the way?

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