The one bag rule is but the final straw.
Read some of the other horror aspects of Heathrow, below.
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:34:36 GMT, Greg Carver
wrote:
>Cretin, the article is being published worldwide, so that potential tourists
>to the UK know IN ADVANCE about the HORRORS of Heathrow.
>When they know, they can then make an informed decision, such as to AVOID
>Heathrow, and use a more civilised airport, whether Manchester, Schiphil,
>Frankfurt and Paris even.
>Guess you must be involved with all the problems including theft at Heathrow,
>what?
>On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:50:15 GMT, "Lawrence Akutagawa"
> wrote:
>>Clearly, thinking that Heathrow is in USA-Canada, therefore posting this in
>>travel.usa-canada. Another substantiation that there are indeed those who
>>still maintain that once a Brit colony, always a Brit colony.
>>"Jean Valjean" wrote in message
>>news:nh44b3d6up7pa4chk7fju914ukuhjiigjv@4ax.com...
>>> Media worldwide have been reporting on the many THOUSANDS of
>>> pieces of luggage now being lost daily at Heathrow!!
>>> How do the airport authority plan on improving service?
>>> Or, do they still get their exorbitant pay even though they are
>>> obviously incompetent?
>>> With all this bad publicity, passengers will sooner go to Manchester, or
>>> even Schiphol/Amsterdam, and then take a train, if they must go to London!!
>>> Forget about people coming for the Olympics - it won't be happening.
>>> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:19:01 +0200, Earl Evleth wrote:
>>>>Londoners fear misery at Heathrow with drive away visitors
>>>> The Associated Press
>>>>Wednesday, August 1, 2007
>>>>LONDON: London's ambition to overtake New York as the world's pre-eminent
>>>>city faces a big obstacle: its gateway, Heathrow Airport, is enough to
>>>>make visitors feel like flying home before they even see Big Ben, Buckingham
>>>>Palace, or the financial superhub known as the City.
>>>>Notorious security checks, a labyrinthine layout, and shoddy service
>>>>combine to form the "Heathrow Hassle."
>>>>With fears mounting of chaos when the city hosts the Olympics in 2012,
>>>>government officials and business figures are calling for urgent
>>>>improvements at the world's third-busiest airport.
>>>>In the past week, Heathrow has come under a barrage of criticism.
>>>>London Mayor Ken Livingstone called it a "shame" on London. A junior
>>>>government minister claims the airport is so infuriating that it could hurt
>>>>London's business prospects. And a business executive remarked that some
>>>>people will do anything to avoid flying through Heathrow.
>>>>The airport once was a name that evoked the jet-set allure of international
>>>>travel. In recent years, however, it's become associated more with
>>>>complaints about crowded terminals, long shuffles through security and
>>>>passport lines, lost luggage and a depressing decor.
>>>>The hammering began with news that Heathrow would seek a broad injunction
>>>>against protests planned at the airport for mid-August by groups opposed to
>>>>plans to build a third runway, which opponents say would severely increase
>>>>noise and air pollution.
>>>>Green groups said the injunction was so broad that it would allow police to
>>>>detain potential protesters not just at the airport but on parts of the
>>>>London Underground and railway network and sections of highways near
>>>>Heathrow.
>>>>"This is the mother of all injunctions. We've long known the airport
>>>>operators to be arrogant, but trying to ban 5 million people from coming
>>>>near them is conceited even by their standards," said John Stewart, the
>>>>chairman of the Hacan group that opposes the new runway.
>>>>Livingstone was livid.
>>>>"Someone there must be out their skull," the outspoken mayor said Tuesday,
>>>>referring to officials at the British Airports Authority, which runs
>>>>Heathrow and London's other two airports, Gatwick and Stansted.
>>>>"What BAA has done is guarantee massive coverage of what was going to be a
>>>>minor encampment."
>>> Now all the world, not just the Brits know all about the serious problems
>>> at Heathrow.
>>>>Livingstone didn't limit his criticism to the protest row.
>>>>"Certainly Heathrow does shame London. It is typical of the English
>>>>short-termism, lack of planning, lack of investment," he said.
>>>>"Its quite clear the current management, and management before them, thought
>>>>they could keep people almost as prisoner in this ghastly shopping mall so
>>>>they can extract vast sums of money from them while they wait in appalling
>>>>conditions."
>>> And you though airports in Canada and the US are awful.
>>> When even the mayor must criticise the management, then you know
>>> conditions are woefully substandard.
>>> This is supposed to be Britain, not Russia.
>>>>A spokeswoman for BAA said the airport has been plagued by the lengthy
>>>>legal and planning process required for improvements. For example, the airport's
>>>>nearly completed fifth terminal was held up for 20 years by red tape.
>>>>Terminal 5 is to open in March and will allow the airport to raise its
>>>>annual passenger capacity by 30 million, said the spokeswoman, who spoke
>>>>on customary condition of anonymity.
>>>>Heathrow was designed to serve about 45 million passengers a year but now
>>>>sees around 68 million.
>>>>BAA also plans refurbishments, new inter-terminal transports and other
>>>>projects it says will make Heathrow a new airport by the 2012 Summer
>>>>Games.
>>>>But Economics Secretary Kitty Ussher warned this week that the airport's
>>>>hassles could discourage business.
>>> No doubt about it - customers will soon be BOYCOTTING Heathrow!!
>>>>"I don't want New York or Dubai executives saying 'Oh God, I don't want to
>>>>go through Heathrow,'" she was quoted as saying in The Financial Times.
>>> Already people are saying this, and passing on this advice to others.
>>>>Sir Thomas Harris, vice chairman of Standard Chartered Capital Markets,
>>>>told the newspaper that Heathrow faces stiff competition from rival transport
>>>>hubs.
>>>>"There are lots of people who will fly through Amsterdam, Paris or Frankfurt
>>>>or do almost anything to avoid a Heathrow connection if they can," he
>>>>said.
>>> Right on - time to teach those stupid managers of Heathrow a lesson.
>>> Why are they not being fired, and even prosecuted for their negligence?
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