Heathrow T5′s first day hit by cancelled flights, strike, protest =

<p>Why can this country not do big infrastructure projects with =
embarrassing itself? </p> <blockquote> <p>The opening =
of a =C2=A34.3billion terminal hailed as the future of air travel turned =
into chaos yesterday as 70 staff held an unofficial strike and 63 =
flights were cancelled. British Airways bosses were humiliated as =
thousands of travellers faced huge delays and lost luggage at Heathrow's =
Terminal 5.</p></blockquote> <p>The fact that the new =
Heathrow Terminal 5 has been such a disaster hardly bodes well for the =
Olympics. I find it astonishing they have opened this terminal without =
ensuring that everything they could possible do, to ensure to operated =
smoothly, was done. I only hope the Pr4esident of France was not forced =
to use it! </p> <p><a =
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