"John B" wrote in message

On Nov 15, 3:41 pm, "Recliner" wrote:
Probably because more airlines have recently moved there from T2 and
T3 (though BA and Qantas kangaroo route flights have moved from T4
to T3):
www.businesstraveller.com/news/heathrow-terminal-moves-update

Building T5 too small to take Qantas flights has got to be the most
epically stupid move by BAA *ever* (ideally, it'd be big enough to
take Iberia, AA and all the OneWorld carriers, but not having the
shared Oz flights is just weird).

The problem is that there wasn't room for a third satellite without
encroaching on to T3 and the fuel farm. Perhaps when T3 is redeveloped,
a new satellite attached to T5 will be built?

What I fail to understand is why the second satellite (5C) wasn't
scheduled to open at the same time as the rest of T5. It must surely be
more expensive to complete it surrounded by active taxiways and parked
planes than it would have been to do so when the rest of T5 was also a
building site.

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:30:52 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

"Basil Jet" wrote in message

Apparently Heathrow T4 tube station has fewer passengers than West
Harrow and West Finchley!
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...d-stations.pdf

T4 is the quietest Heathrow LU station, but the numbers may be lower
than usual as that report covers a period when BA was moving out and
the terminal was being refurbished for its new tenants (Air France,
Alitalia, etc). The T4 station also has quite a poor Tube service,
and maybe some pax use the free Heathrow Express service to T123.

And your comments have also prompted the thought that the figures
might have been produced when T4 station and the loop was closed to
allow the T5 junction to be built.

I wondered about that, too, but I think that the T4 station was fully
reopened in 2006, while this report covers 2008, so the traffic
shouldn't have been affected by the junction construction work. But it
does cover the period when T5 opened, and BA flights were transferred in
waves from T1 and T4. The T2 airlines' move to T4 was delayed, and is
still not complete. So T4 has had significantly less traffic since March
2008 than it did previously, or is likely to have from 2010, when T2
will be shut. Even then, I'm not sure if the new tenants will generate
as much traffic as BA did.