British Airways to Cancel More T5 Flights

BA to cancel hundreds more flights from T5
By Kevin Done, Aerospace Correspondent
Financial Times
Published: March 30 2008 17:33 Last updated: March 30 2008 17:33

British Airways expects to cancel hundreds more flights at its global hub at London Heathrow airport this week, as it battles to overcome baggage handling and other operating problems at its showpiece £4.3bn Terminal 5.

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T5 Nightmare Continues

What did go wrong at Terminal 5?
Seventy flights have been cancelled in the last two days as teething problems at Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 caused chaos. But what actually went wrong?
BBC News
Page last updated at 18:43 GMT, Friday, 28 March 2008

The problems appear to be due to a combination of factors.

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BA promising Terminal 5 fix soon
The Press Association - 1 hour ago
BA has moved to reassure air passengers contemplating a third day of travel chaos at Heathrow's Terminal Five (T5) by revealing that just 37 flights would ...

British Airways boss Willie Walsh refuses to quit after Heathrow chaos
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago
Arch-rivals Virgin Atlantic stuck the boot in, saying BA had been given a wonderful gift with T5 "but they couldn't unwrap it properly". ...

Disruption at T5 enters third day
BBC News, UK - 2 hours ago
Cancelled flights, a temporary suspension in luggage check-in and baggage delays blighted the opening day of T5 on Thursday, leaving many passengers ...

Day 2 At T5 .. And It's Business As Usual
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 3 hours ago
Scheduled flights from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen were axed as T5 saw a second day of long queues, cancellations and baggage delays. ...

SEEING RED IN STYLE
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
In fact the staff at T5 were faultless - impossibly patient, relentlessly cheerful and endearingly helpful. All in all, it was a very British day out - 18 ...

COMPO TO COST DEAR
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
The T5 debacle will cost BA millions - but it may try to get some of the cash back from the British Airports Authority, which technically runs the building. ...

ERRORS PILED UP ALL DAY
Mirror.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
When they finally got into T5, a programming error meant staff could not log into the baggage handling computer. Passengers arrived to find check-ins ...

T5 Nightmare

Baggage halted at new £4.3bn T5
Flights from Heathrow's new £4.3bn Terminal 5 are departing with hand baggage only after luggage check-in was suspended due to technical problems.
BBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, 27 March 2008, 19:43 GMT

British Airways, which has sole use of T5, announced check-in of all hold luggage was suspended until Friday. The airline has already cancelled 34 flights because of baggage system problems and passengers have had to wait up to four hours for luggage.

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Heathrow's T5 Opens to Public

Heathrow's T5 open to passengers
Heathrow's new Terminal 5 has opened to the public as British Airways begins operating from the building.
BBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, 27 March 2008, 07:59 GMT

A BA flight from Hong Kong was the first to arrive at the £4.3bn facility. The first departure was at 0620 GMT, when a service left for Paris.

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'Hassle Heathrow' new terminal opens
CNN International - 44 minutes ago
With 60 aircraft stands actually attached to two new buildings, "T5" can handle dozens of planes at the same time -- including the new Airbus A380 ...

Terminal 5 opens its doors
Guardian, UK - 7 minutes ago
Travellers on the first arrival at T5, flight BA026 from Hong Kong, reported no major problems with baggage or long queues at immigration - two of the ...

Heathrow's T5 Adds Passengers, Fails to Stop Delays (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 minute ago``T5 was actually designed in the early 1990s and so is already out of date,'' Steve Ridgway, Virgin's chief executive officer, said in an e-mailed response ...

BAA axes T5 fingerprinting plan
Guardian, UK - 4 hours ago
Airport operator BAA will not be taking fingerprints of passengers using Heathrow's £4.3 billion Terminal 5 (T5) following doubts over the legality of such ...

Flash mob demo expected as T5 opens The Press Association
Heathrow T5 opens amid tight security Reuters UK
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Cannes Photography: Depart

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Internship Opportunity on Molokai

From craigslist: a potentially great opportunity in a wonderful place for the right person!

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Attention journalism majors and adventurous souls!

Reply to: job-609369517@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-03-17, 8:47PM GMT

An opportunity awaits you on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Molokai. The Molokai Times offers regular four-month internships for journalism students interested in refining their craft. Besides running the newspaper of record for the island, we also operate KMKK radio, the island’s only FM radio station. We also have an active multimedia website, www.molokaitimes.com. Our summer internships begin in late April and run through September. We can be flexible with the dates to accommodate school schedules. If this sounds like an intriguing opportunity, e-mail a resume, samples of your work and the dates you are available to editor@molokaitimes.com.
This internship is unpaid, however housing is provided.

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Cannes Photography: London Antiques Cannes

London Antiques Cannes
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Cheap Flights to London (Travelocity and United)

From the Travelocity website:

Round-Trip Flights From $341+
As the days grow warmer and that famous fog begins to lift, London bursts into full bloom. Now is the perfect moment to visit this storied city with United's round-trip flights from $341+. Book today and take a jolly holiday before the summer crowds arrive.

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Cannes Photography: Croisette

Croisette
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Western Tourist's Report of Protest in Lhasa, Tibet

Lhasa eyewitness: 'City in cinders'
After days of violent street protests, a Western tourist in Lhasa, who wishes to remain anonymous, describes a tense, deserted city firmly in the hands of the Chinese military.

BBC News
Last Updated: Sunday, 16 March 2008, 18:12 GMT

Some tourists who were in the east were forcibly removed from their hotels and hostels. Police turned up today and tried to forcibly remove all of us to a hotel further out west ... Our hostel was largely occupied by Chinese people and they were panic-stricken. They armed themselves with anything they could find; beer bottles, meat cleavers. They started to break chairs and windows to arm themselves.

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Cannes Photography: Dog City

Dog City
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Long Branch Beaches among the Best?

What am I missing? I mean, don't get me wrong, Long Branch is a great place (and one I always thought was a bit underrated) but one of Travel & Leisure magazine’s list of 20 Great American Beaches? I don't get it. Anyway, interesting article. Poor Asbury Park - out in the cold yet again.

Where Leasing Beats Selling
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN
New York Times
Published: March 16, 2008

The club has been wildly popular, by all accounts, and last year gained Long Branch a spot on Travel & Leisure magazine’s list of 20 Great American Beaches. “That was amazing, given what the place was, like, only about five or six years before that,” Mr. Barry said.

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Long Branch Windmill
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Cannes Photography: City Dog

City Dog
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Paris Short Film: Liberty Fades

Very short clip shot at the Statue of Liberty in Paris (yes, there's a Statue of Libery in Paris too). What's interesting is how the statue's shadow cast upon the bridge behind it fades in and out. Kinda neat.

Cannes Photography: Cannes-struction

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Cannes Photography: 25 le B

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Cannes Photography: All that Glitters

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Trans-Atlantic leg room and high attendent to passenger ratio

Airline Commits 'Eco-Crime'
Trans-Atlantic flight arrives in London with just FIVE passengers on board
eTurboNews
Mar 05, 2008

Furious environmental campaigners have hit out at an airline that sent a plane on a 4,000-mile journey with just five passengers on board.

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Photography by Cubbie_n_Vegas via Flickr.

Paris Short Film: Eiffel Tower Quickie

Just a quick shot while in passing through the base of this Parisian landmark.

Paris Short Film: L'Art du Bain

Shot early on a Sunday morning from a hotel window in the 16th Arrodisment of Paris. The subject had been standing there for some time before I ever started looking out of the window and was there at least a minute or two before I grabbed my camcorder. Sad.