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| One year deadline for Terminal 5 | One year deadline for Terminal 5 |
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| The new £4.3bn terminal at Heathrow Airport will be ready in exactly one year, the scheme's planners have said. | The new £4.3bn terminal at Heathrow Airport will be ready in exactly one year, the scheme's planners have said. |
| Terminal 5 will undergo six months of tests involving 16,000 volunteers before it opens on 27 March 2008. | Terminal 5 will undergo six months of tests involving 16,000 volunteers before it opens on 27 March 2008. |
| The tests will check facilities from car parking to flight journeys at the airport, the UK's biggest. | The tests will check facilities from car parking to flight journeys at the airport, the UK's biggest. |
| Work on the terminal began in 2002 after a record-breaking four-year public inquiry prompted by local residents and green groups. | Work on the terminal began in 2002 after a record-breaking four-year public inquiry prompted by local residents and green groups. |
| The terminal will serve an extra 30 million passengers and the first flight to be served by it will be a BA service from Hong Kong. | The terminal will serve an extra 30 million passengers and the first flight to be served by it will be a BA service from Hong Kong. |
| 'Ageing terminal' | 'Ageing terminal' |
| name="text"> The passengers arriving from the Far East will be the first of about 40,000 to go through the terminal on its first day of operation. | |
| T5 IN NUMBERS Work began in 2002UK's biggest free-standing buildingMain structure is 396m longWill cater for 30m passengers a yearEight miles of tunnels boredTwo rivers diverted30,000sq m of glass facades installed class="" href="#map">Where the new terminal is | |
| It will have platforms to serve both the Heathrow Express and London Underground's Piccadilly line. | It will have platforms to serve both the Heathrow Express and London Underground's Piccadilly line. |
| Shops at the terminal will include Harrods and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay will open his first airport-based restaurant there. | Shops at the terminal will include Harrods and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay will open his first airport-based restaurant there. |
| Heathrow chief executive Tony Douglas said 68 million passengers would fly through Heathrow this year "in ageing terminal facilities designed to accommodate around 45 million". | Heathrow chief executive Tony Douglas said 68 million passengers would fly through Heathrow this year "in ageing terminal facilities designed to accommodate around 45 million". |
| He said: "When T5 opens and 30 million passengers move out of existing terminals, for the first time we will have space to breathe in the central terminal area. | He said: "When T5 opens and 30 million passengers move out of existing terminals, for the first time we will have space to breathe in the central terminal area. |
| "We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redevelop the rest of the airport and bring it up to a comparable standard to T5." | "We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redevelop the rest of the airport and bring it up to a comparable standard to T5." |
| Friends of the Earth called for the government to end airport expansions plans, including a third Heathrow runway. | Friends of the Earth called for the government to end airport expansions plans, including a third Heathrow runway. |
| "If ministers are serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions Terminal 5 must be the last major airport expansion," said campaigner Tony Bosworth. name="map"> | |
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