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Subject: Re: Terminal 5 - I love it! Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:06:46 +0200

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:25:25 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>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'...:
>> >> > 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?

In Schiphol? Are you joking?
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Martin