Aug 22nd, 2009 at 8:00AM: Hate it? Embrace it! Heathrow Airport has decided to immortalize the plights of their passengers – rather than bury or ignore them. The airport has tapped best-selling author Alain de Botton – whose titles include The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life – to spend a week in Terminal 5 and reveal what really happens in this environment.
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Heathrow hires author to write about Heathrow
Aug 22nd, 2009 at 8:00AM: Hate it? Embrace it! Heathrow Airport has decided to immortalize the plights of their passengers – rather than bury or ignore them. The airport has tapped best-selling author Alain de Botton – whose titles include The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life – to spend a week in Terminal 5 and reveal what really happens in this environment.
He kicked off ...The Gadling tour of JetBlue's new Terminal 5 at JFK
Aug 23rd, 2008 at 3:40PM: As Grant reported earlier this month, JetBlue is in the final stages of construction for its brand new home at Terminal 5 of New York's JFK airport. This morning Gadling had the chance to take a sneak peak of the new facilities in advance of the building's official opening on October 1st. Although there's still much to be accomplished in the next 6 weeks, the building is already shaping up as a ...Naomi Campbell faces five charges for her bad airport behavior
May 29th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Remember the Naomi Campbell incident back in early April? If you need your memory refreshed, Campbell was arrested after causing a scene over misplaced luggage in Heathrow's Terminal 5. Now Campbell is being faced with five different charges in connection with the alleged assault of a police officer who was called in to deal with her melt down, reports The Guardian. Not that I am a fan of ...A third day of Heathrow misery. Terminal case continues
Mar 29th, 2008 at 3:30PM: Things are not working out so well at London Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Since the terminal opened three days ago, it has been nothing but baggage problems, cancellations and misery, BBC reports. One fifth of flights from the new terminal were scrapped today: 67 out of the 330 scheduled. 37 flights have been canceled for Sunday.
A total of 208 flights in and out of the terminal were canceled ...Heathrow to get a facelift
Dec 14th, 2007 at 5:33PM: Before I had been to England, Heathrow Airport seemed a magical place in my mind -- a place that emblemized everything British, from black cabs to girls in Union Jack-flag dresses. Plus, the Beatles had been there, so it must be amazing. But when I got there and took my first few steps on British ground, I was surprised; it was dingy and a bit smelly, a mish mash of cultures and consumerism and ...
