Heathrow’s chief railed against the quarantine place today warning there is a danger of the ‘health pandemic becoming an unemployment pandemic’. Home Secretary Priti Patel today insisted that a 14-day quarantine for UK arrivals is ‘essential to save lives’ – but confessed it would hit businesses hard. She defied a significant Conservative revolt to tell … Read more
London’s Heathrow Airport can seem unfathomable if you don’t use it very often. The trick to taming it? Follow the advice of the experts, right here. MailOnline Travel has asked frequent fliers from aviation sites, British Airways and American Airlines employees, etiquette expert William Hanson and Heathrow Airport’s Director of Customer Relations and Service for … Read more
A frequent flyer live-blogged his business class trip from Heathrow Airport to New York via Amsterdam to ‘demystify what it’s actually like out there during Covid-19‘ – and it makes for fascinating reading. The blogger, Gilbert Ott, published the account to his travel tips site, God Save The Points, revealing what it was like in … Read more
New thermal imaging cameras which can check the temperatures of airline passengers as they enter Britain are today set to be rolled out at the country’s busiest airport, as bosses look at ways to kick-start the travel industry in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Heathrow will introduce the tripod mounted cameras in one of … Read more
Finnair will resume flights from Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh in July, gradually adding routes back to its global network. Between April and June, Finnair will have been operating at roughly five per cent of its normal 350-flight capacity – around 20 flights a day – maintaining critical air connections for Finland. From July it will … Read more
Industry bosses are urging the Government to begin planning flights between ‘low risk’ countries in order to rebuild the economy. Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye said he believes the UK should adopt a risk-based approach in order to determine where flights can travel to and from, as he warned the UK economy will suffer … Read more
Heathrow trials thermal imaging temperature checks this week meaning Britons could soon start flying abroad without quarantining when they return Passengers at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 will be automatically screened The trial, set to start as soon as Thursday, will use thermal imaging cameras Passengers will see the cameras as they pass through the immigration … Read more
Gulp. Captain Mike Blythe, British Airways Flight Technical and Training Manager for the Airbus A380 and A350 is sitting next to me. ‘Take a deep breath,’ he says. Why? Because I’m about to take a British Airways Airbus A350 down one of London Heathrow’s runways and take-off for the very first time. Ted prepares to … Read more
Heathrow airpot is set to trial thermal imaging facial recognition cameras in a bid to spot passengers carrying coronavirus. It is one of a raft of measures the airport is taking to ensure passenger safety and will be trialled in the next two weeks in Terminal 2. The new safety procedures include UV sanitation, which could … Read more
Raft of clay tablets and pots thought to be from ancient Middle East when seized at Heathrow are FAKES say the British Museum – and could have been on their way to con a wealthy collector ‘These consignments confirm the importance of vigilance on the part of our law enforcement agencies’ Pair of trunks filled … Read more