Heathrow

As of June, travellers passing through Brussels, Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino airports can download three audiobooks for free. The service will be offered over Wifi at these airports for passengers on Oneworld airlines. People can download audiobooks to their laptops, smartphones and PDAs via the airline’s websites. There is a choice of 40 titles […]

Except when travelling internationally, I’ve taken to travelling only with carry-on luggage wherever possible. Even when flying international I’ve learnt the benefit of having a well stocked carry-on bag after having experienced the debarkle which was the Heathrow T5 opening. Some people have called me paranoid but it seems that the Air Transport Users Council […]

No airport ever opens without a glitch, remember the great debarkle of Heathrow T5. So when JetBlue’s new JFK Terminal 5 opened, everyone wondered what would go wrong. The operational side had been tested, retested and tested again. It wouldn’t be a repeat of Heathrow. But just because Murphy likes to visit airports on their […]

The Thomas Pink concept store due to open in T5 in March should be interesting.  As well as selling Thomas Pink merchandise of course, the store will have a mineral water bar in the centre where you can sip on the latest mineral waters whilst watching FTSE reports from the London markets.  Shoppers will also […]

In March, World Duty Free will open its new Connoisseur Bar in Heathrow’s T5.  The new concept will allow passengers to sample and explores a range of cognacs and malts.  The bar is located within one of the Duty Free stores and will feature a team of trained experts offering one-to-one tasting sessions tailored to […]