Terminal 5

Photo / NealHumprhis Remember all those forthright assurances that the full body scanners at Heathrow, introduced a month ago, wouldn’t be misused by airport staff? Looks a hollow promise now that a security guard is under investigation for allegedly leering at a colleague’s body as …

Image / Route79 Heathrow has again been dealt a drubbing by frequent fliers, who have ranked it the world’s worst airport for the second year running. A survey of travellers who take more than 17 flights per year saw Heathrow finish bottom of the pile, …

Don’t want to worry anyone, but Terminal 5 is sinking. Boris would like us all to export more stuff. Now train delays are to be tweeted. There’s some sort of strange time-wasting symmetry in there but we can’t work it out. Postal strike imminent: question …

Photo by Simon Crubellier Stung by the disasters at Terminal 5′s opening, BAA has taken unorthodox publicity methods to regain public trust: after mounting an ad campaign with the humble boast that the airport is “working”, they’re now thrilled about an underground luggage tunnel. It’s …

BA may have embarked on an advertising campaign to remind folk that T5 is “working”, but what’s a much better way of getting people to forget said terminal’s troubled birth? Show them that it’s by far the only problematic part of Heathrow. Last night some …

It’s no secret that the opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 wasn’t the greatest success in British aviation history. The words “pissup”, “brewery” and “couldn’t organise a” were very much to mind as the umpteen-billion pound Richard Rogers-designed structure conspired to lose thousands of bags and …

T5 – the new Terminator sequel in which desperate humans do battle with out-of-control machines at Heathrow Airport. The sorry debacle is now enshrined in song, courtesy of Tom Soong, who wanted revenge on BA for losing his wedding clothes days before the ceremony. Warning …

More T5 woe: BA postpones long-haul move Still, at least homeless folk are being helped out by the Heathrow chaos Cops to be electronically tagged; just like the crims, then, eh? Strike saga stumbles on – tube workers votes for industrial action Working for Lambeth …

It’s not often we sympathise with stroppy supermodels, but we actually feel some sympathy for Naomi Campbell today. She’s been released on bail after being arrested yesterday at Heathrow after an alleged incident at Terminal 5. Apparently, she checked two bags in at Terminal 5 …

Honestly, did you really ever expect to see that headline? This is what London does better than anybody: ballsing up big civic projects. Think of the Dome, or the Millennium Bridge. It wouldn’t be a proper London opening if chaos and confusion weren’t part of …