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Well at the moment it is still very much business as usual here at Heathrow, that is what they are telling us at the terminals and that's also what the airlines are telling us. There's a flight err, due to leave here in a couple of minutes time headed for New York. The airline says it is still leaving, they still have the last call announcements on the monitors at the moment but they are still boarding that flight and they say that if New York airports are closed err, later on then they will have to make a decision while the airliner is in the air to divert it then. There's another flight out at about six o'clock but again we are being told that it is still scheduled to leave.
There were a few last minute arrivals for this four o'clock flight, they are obviously in a great hurry so I only just had a short time to talk to them. They err, obviously said that they are even more concerned about flying than they were before hand, but err not sufficiently concerned to cancel their flights they have actually left. There has been a large number of tanoy announcements for American Airlines passengers to the telephones in the terminal, presumably worried friends and relatives wanting to talk to them before they take their flights.
The desks at the moment are still open although the passenger numbers are down considerably, the err, numbers of passengers going across the Atlantic since September the eleventh have of course fallen off quite sharply so it is relatively quite at the terminal at the moment. There are some concerns that if the situation worsens unnecessary journeys will be advised against as we have seen before.
© Frances Carnegie 2006
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