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Heathrow trials baggage handling system at Terminal 2

2013-06-26 01:00:00| Airport Technology

London Heathrow Airport is trialling its baggage handling system for the new Queens Terminal, as it gears up to open the facility on 4 June 2014.

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Giant Cake Replica of the Heathrow Express Airport Train

2013-06-25 22:00:50| Grocery - Topix.net

To celebrate the 15th birthday of the Heathrow Express airport train in London, Miss Cakehead and the Eat Your Heart Out team built a 13-foot-long cake replica of a Heathrow Express train car this past weekend.

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Gatwick second runway 'more feasible' than Heathrow expansion

2013-06-25 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An increasingly confident Gatwick is to tell the Airports Commission that its proposed second runway is the only major expansion that would be politically feasible to deliver in the south-east. The chief executive, Stewart Wingate, contrasted the expense of a new hub airport, and the population affected by noise and pollution at Heathrow, with a solution he said offered "certainty" of delivery. The Gatwick "constellation" vision three two-runway airports around London, including an eventual...

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Bigger Heathrow 'cheaper and faster'

2013-06-18 03:23:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Creating a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be "cheaper, quicker and better for the economy" than building a new airport, Heathrow bosses claim.

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