Blogs from Heathrow Airport, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 24

It's 'D-Day'! Still felt like a normal day right up until 5:30pm, when we headed off to Heathrow. It was only when we were sat in Wetherspoons watching the footy that it all felt a bit different. Before then we had the issue of not having reserved seats online, so we were 9 rows apart. However, by the time we boarded, Sars had it all sorted and the holiday was to begin... until a technical glitch delayed the flight 90mins! Oh well, 7 February and in the air on way to Singapore.... read more

London is a cool place. It´s amazing how a group of people that speaks the same language as you can be so hard to understand. The airport in Heathrow is not the greatest, but the people are friendly and patient. I met a girl, named Olivia, that is studying abroad in Switzerland. Since we both had a layover for 2 hours we got to sit together and it was nice to have someone to talk to. I would like to spend more time in London someday. It is beautiful.... read more

So I wentdown to Heathrow with my dad and his partner and it was apretty shitty moment when i had to say goodbye,kinda like that feeling you get when you know you're just about to fall, 'cus it's the first time i've been really on my own. Anyway on the way through security I got pulled aside by these security guys, obviously i look a bit dodgey, and they make me pose in front of this full body X-Ray machine. After this they asked me if i wanted to see the pictures, and when i went to the computer screen it was just me in the buff but painted blue, very wierd and slightly pervy of BA, but they all laughed when i told them i was in better shape than i thought i was. The ... read more

Welcome to Heathrow... Friday, December 22-23, 5:15pm We arrive from Iceland. The original plan had been to spend the night in London and come back to the airport in the morning for our continuing journey. That was when we were arriving at noon, had our luggage, and outdoor visibility was greater than 2 feet. From London's Daily Mail newspaper for that day: It is difficult to explain to anyone visiting these shores how a dose of winter frost and fog can so easily envelop one of the world's leading airports in chaos and calamity, compelling its national airline to wipe off hundreds of flights at a stroke and stranding passengers for hours, maybe days. For the second day running, these were the horrendous scenes at Heathrow as nearly 200,000 people struggled to get away for Christmas. ... read more

Hi all, I haven't had access to internet for a while so will catch up now with some backdated entries. We arrived at Heathrow Airport at 7:30am on Tuesday 20 December to check in for our 10:20am flight to Finland via Stockholm. Heathrow was badly fogged in, so at about 8:30am they asked everyone to go upstairs to a departure lounge and wait for the announcement to check in. We went back to the check in desk at 12 noon even though there had been no announcement only to find that our flight was full! Apparently many people had ignored the request to wait and they had actually been checking these people in on the flight. Profuse apologies did not really help me feel any better as we had to stand in another line for about ... read more