Passengers using the Heathrow Airport will soon be enjoying the latest boarding pass technology offered by Continental Airlines.
Continental will be the first airline to be offering paperless boarding for its flight from the UK to the US. Under the initiative, passengers will be given a boarding pass directly to their mobile phones or PDAs, thus eliminating the need for conventional paper tickets and boarding cards.
Vice President for Reservations and E-commerce of Continental, Martin Hand, said that the service improvement was due to consumer demands. He said that the airline has plans to offer the self-service technology to its domestic and [...]

Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle recently collapsed at London’s Heathrow Airport. Boyle fell unconscious when she was waiting for her flight to Nice. Reports said that Boyle fainted while she was inside the British Airways Club Lounge. She was then given medical attention and was later allowed to board her flight to Nice. Boyle was scheduled to perform in Italy’s San Remo Festival.
Susan Boyle’s spokesman confirmed the incident in Heathrow. He added that the singer suffered overheating as the lounge was so warm. One passenger who witnessed the incident inside the lounge described her collapse as very dramatic.
Reports [...]

Apparently, armed police stormed a plane at London Heathrow Airport just recently due to fears of a terror threat. The police swarmed the Dubai-bound Emirates plane as it was taxiing on the tarmac before take off.
Passengers that were on the plane were terrified as they watched police, which were apparently armed with aromatic weapons, stormed the flight. Some witnesses say that they handcuffed the suspect, who was said to be a white male, and got him off the aircraft quickly. There were also reports of another individual being arrested as well.
Airports have been on high alert like this ever since [...]

It now appears that full body scanners will be making their way to Heathrow Airport by the end of this current month. The government will also be introducing things like more frequent searches, behavioral analysis and even more sniffer dogs. The Home Secretary Alan Johnson also confirmed that they are considering the introduction of passenger profiling.
All of these new security measures are, of course, a direct result of the failed Christmas Bay bomb plot. The extra security measure will inevitably lead to yet more delays at the UK’s busiest and most congested airport. It is still not clear if other [...]

After 54 years of service, Heathrow’s Terminal 2 will now be closing its doors for the final time this week. This announcement comes as the Terminal will be closed to make way for a £1 billion replacement.
According to reports from the airport, Terminal 2 and its neighboring Queen’s Building will be demolished. After the two buildings are taken down work will be started on a new Terminal 2 next year. As of now this Terminal is set for a 2014 opening and will serve as a new home for the Star Alliance airlines, including Lufthansa.
The brand new Terminal 2 will [...]

Figures that have been released by a survey, which was taken by members of Priority Pass, show that Heathrow Airport has been voted as the worst in the world. Priority Pass is one of the world’s leading independent airport lounge programs. The survey included responses from 160 countries and only respondents that took, on average, 17 flights this year were allowed to take part in the survey.
This would not have been as bad had this not been a repeat of last year’s results, as well for Heathrow Airport. Last year the airport was till recovering from the very ill fated [...]

A new advert claiming that a third runway at Heathrow will not make the airport noisier or dirtier has now been ruled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority. They went on to claim that the ad was also misleading for claiming that the runway would not go ahead unless local air quality meets EU standards on concentration of nitrogen dioxide. This ad has now been placed in many papers by pro-Heathrow expansion groups and was published in the period before the government’s January 2009 decision to approve a third runway at the west London airport.
The Advertising Standards Authority [...]

First impressions of the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow reveal Norman Foster at his mighty architectural best. Uncluttered, crisp, elegant spaces are combined with 10m windows keep the new building as free of artificial light as possible under an aerofoil shaped sweeping roof.
Foster’s visionary design will rank Heathrow, long an aesthetic and logistic nightmare, among the world’s best terminals.
Completion of the new terminal is forecast for 2019, a year which will likely see Heathrow almost unrecognisable from its current state, with upgrades slated for Terminals 3 and 4 along with an extension to the Richard Roger’s inspired Terminal 5. A [...]

London Heathrow airport has now just released details of its new £1 billion Terminal 2 building, which will eventually be used to house Star Alliance carriers. The new terminal, which was part of a large £4.8 billion investment across the airport, will have tons more floor space. The terminal will also have self-service check in machines, check-in desks, security search lanes, and fast bag drops.
Mike Brown from Heathrow airport said, “The new Terminal 2 is part of a major program of work already underway. Passengers traveling through Heathrow will be using new and extensively refurbished facilities which provide us with [...]

Gatwick Airport could possibly see a second runway expansion rather than Stansted Airport or Heathrow Airport with secret plans being created by the companies who are bidding to purchase the second biggest airport in Britain. On Wednesday of last week, the Competition Commission supported the idea effectively, calling on the government to change their aviation policy. Their statement threatens to reveal state policy during a period when the Cabinet is having a dispute over building a 3rd runway at the Heathrow Airport.
If Gatwick Airport is to have an expansion, as many as 300 homes would be destroyed. [...]