BA Unveils New Terminal at Heathrow

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British Airways Unveils New Terminal at Heathrow
The Giant Terminal Features and Astonishing 112 Stores and Restaurants

By THOMAS WAGNER
Associated Press Writer
Jan. 15, 2008

LONDON (AP) -- British Airways showed off its new terminal at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, a light-flooded, gleaming white modern facility with some of the latest technology, a first-class lounge with a cinema and a five-story-high wall of windows offering a view of Windsor Castle.

Terminal 5 has 112 stores and restaurants and cost $8.4 billion. It took British airports operator BAA seven years to build as part of an effort to improve the world's busiest international airport in time for the 2012 London Olympics.

The terminal will only serve BA customers and will handle its first flight March 27. Read more...