Skylink News Update

01 Apr 2008

London's Heathrow Airport, Americans' major gateway to Europe, is about to offer first-class conditions to 40% of the nearly 68 million travelers suffering through the much-maligned hub each year. On March 27, Heathrow will open an airy new Terminal 5 complex. It will be the exclusive home to British Airways, the biggest of the 90 airlines that operate at Heathrow, with 30 million passengers annually. The new terminal won't be a panacea, however. It won't eliminate all of the "Heathrow hassle" of crowded and delayed conditions at the busiest airport on that side of the Atlantic and third-busiest in the world behind Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson and Chicago O'Hare.