London Protest ; Nightmare On the Tube, Train or Buses? Contact Us and Tell Transport Bosses What They Need to Know

Evening Standard - London › June 27, 2007

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I HAVE just travelled through Heathrow Terminal 1 for the first time since I retired, and was greeted with holes in floors and revolting toilets.

BAA spokesman Mark Mann's excuse about the 50 per cent increase in passenger volume the airport has had to take is breathtaking. The real reason for the traffic increase is BAA's 20-year-old "hub and spoke" policy, whereby millions of travellers are sucked in solely to connect to another flight. Why else would BA have, on numerous occasions, sold me business class tickets for Stockholm to New York via Heathrow and Concorde for several hundred pounds less than a normal London to New York flight?

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London Protest ; Nightmare On the Tube, Train or Buses? Contact Us and Tell Transport Bosses What They Need to Know

Graham Vick...

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