London Banter - View Single Post - Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend

[email protected] · January 6th 13, 07:22 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
18:03:53 on Sat, 5 Jan 2013, remarked:
I find the choice of this weekend to block the route from Heathrow to
central London particularly inconsiderate to passengers. I'm sure this is
one of the busier weekends at Heathrow with people on Christmas and New
Year breaks returning. There were a lot of people with luggage
everywhere.

Whenever the news reports a "busy day" at Heathrow, the numbers they
quote are usually extremely close to the average. Because most
flights at Heathrow are full, and there's no slots for extra
aircraft, there isn't much of a daily fluctuation.

(From the airport's website, daily average 190k/busiest ever day 233k)

The amount of luggage accompanying the passengers varies more I suspect.
This is the winter holiday period. Business travellers carry rather less, I
have a feeling.

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Colin Rosenstiel