Tuesday, March 27, 2007

BBC NEWS | England | London | One year deadline for Terminal 5

BBC NEWS England London One year deadline for Terminal 5: "One year deadline for Terminal 5

The new terminal will serve about 30 million passengers a year
The new £4.3bn terminal at Heathrow Airport will be ready in exactly one year, the scheme's planners have said.
Terminal 5 will undergo six months of tests involving 16,000 volunteers before it opens on 27 March 2008.
The tests will check facilities from car parking to flight journeys at the airport, the UK's biggest.
Work on the terminal began in 2002 after a record-breaking four-year public inquiry prompted by local residents and green groups.
The terminal will serve an extra 30 million passengers and the first flight to be served by it will be a BA service from Hong Kong. "