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Heathrow Airport puts environmental limits before new flights
Heathrow Airport announces that it will today ask the Government to appoint an independent assessor to guarantee public confidence in noise and air quality limits if expansion is approved...
26 November 2008

Hundreds of local firms take opportunity to ‘Meet the Buyers’
Representatives from over 300 local businesses attended the 12th annual BAA Heathrow Meet the Buyers, held on the 26 and 27 November at the Sofitel Heathrow Hotel, Terminal 5. The always-popular event gave local businesses the chance to introduce their products and services to buyers from 65 major organisations based in and around Heathrow...
26 November 2008

BAA Heathrow shows degree of promise
Applications are now open for the Foundation Degree in Retail Operations and People Management, starting in January 2009...
13 November 2008

Terminal 4's £100m new check-in area reaches the top
Heathrow's £4bn transformation programme reached a key milestone on Tuesday as Terminal 4’s new check-in extension was 'topped-out'...
13 November 2008

BAA Heathrow’s bloomin’ marvellous awards
BAA has been given two coveted London in Bloom awards for its landscaping work at Heathrow Airport. The award was judged by a regional panel who looked at the approach roads to the airport in particular...
23 October 2008

BAA conference considers integrated air/rail hub at Heathrow
At a major strategic rail conference held today, BAA encouraged the rail industry to work with the aviation sector to exploit a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a world-leading air and rail transport hub at Heathrow, to be underpinned by two complementary competitive assets: a third runway built within strict environmental limits and a high-speed rail network that will connect the UK's hub airport with every major centre of population across the country."
23 October 2008

BAA Heathrow’s biodiversity programme recognised by key award
BAA’s commitment to biodiversity in local communities around the airport has been recognised by The Wildlife Trusts, which has awarded the company the prestigious Biodiversity Benchmark standard for the management of its conservation sites in the Heathrow area...
21 October 2008

Heathrow Airtrack consultation to take place from October 20
The second stage of the Heathrow Airtrack consultation, will update residents on how the scheme has progressed in the Staines area and also will give the local community a chance to have their say on the whole Heathrow Airtrack scheme...
21 October 2008

Heathrow's Personal Rapid Transport ('PRT') system is on track as guideway construction phase is completed
Heathrow Airport's pioneering new PRT system has moved a step closer with the successful completion of 3.8km of steel and concrete guideways, linking Terminal 5 with the Business car park to the north of the airport...
21 October 2008

Heathrow’s Retail Academy does business with China
BAA Heathrow’s Retail Academy, in association with the JGA Group, is launching a series of Mandarin lessons in November for Heathrow and local hotel staff, to provide great service to the increasing number of Chinese passengers passing through the airport. ..
21 October 2008

Heathrow’s Retail Academy does Business with China
BAA Heathrow’s Retail Academy, in association with the JGA Group, is launching a series of Mandarin lessons in November for Heathrow and local hotel staff, to provide great service to the increasing number of Chinese passengers passing through the airport...
17 October 2008

BAA Heathrow helps local young people stick around to get a career in construction
BAA and local Education Business Partnerships are delivering a programme of fun events at local Heathrow area schools...
08 October 2008

BAA statement about a third runway
"BAA believes this country needs both a third runway at Heathrow and high speed rail..."
29 September 2008

Alitalia has ceased operations from Heathrow Airport
Alitalia has cancelled all services to and from Heathrow Airport. Passengers are advised not to come to the airport for travel today...
25 September 2008

Runners fly along Heathrow runway at midnight in aid of Marie Curie nurses
A 120-strong team of runners raced along Heathrow Airport’s Northern Runway at midnight Saturday September 20, to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care...
21 September 2008

Fulcrum students return from India
Twenty two students and three BAA staff from around Heathrow returned home safely on August 1 from a life changing experience renovating a Himalayan primary school in the remote village of Kurek in the Spiti Valley in India...
06 August 2008

Information for residents - change of runway alternation
A lightning strike at Heathrow on the 28 July has caused some damage to runway lights. Until the damage is repaired aircraft heading west will only be able to land on the southern runway after dusk.
30 July 2008

BAA backs pivotal youth challenge
25 school children from the Heathrow area depart on trip to rebuild Himalayan primary school...
21 July 2008

Against all FODS - Heathrow goes live with Europe’s first runway debris detection system
Heathrow, the world’s busiest international airport has invested in a state of the art radar system to further improve safety by continuously sweeping its runways for foreign objects and debris (FOD)...
13 June 2008

Planned demonstration at Heathrow
Due to a planned demonstration at the eastern side of Heathrow Airport on Saturday May 31, some disruption is expected to local transport...
27 May 2008

Heathrow Airport announcement
BAA today announces that Mark Bullock, managing director of Heathrow Airport, has chosen to leave the company in light of the change to the MD role at Heathrow as part of a structural change already announced by chief executive Colin Matthews...
13 May 2008

BAA/BA joint statement: Terminal 5 update
Services to and from eight long-haul destinations will be switched from Terminal 4 to Terminal 5 on June 5...
09 May 2008

BAA and British Airways joint statement
BAA and British Airways today announced that the planned move of the airline’s long haul services from Terminal Four at Heathrow to Terminal Five will be deferred until June...
11 April 2008

‘Discover Heathrow’ walk and talks at BAA Heathrow’s conservation sites
BAA Heathrow’s environment team are hosting four ‘Discover Heathrow’ educational walks and talks at two of BAA Heathrow’s conservation sites in April and June this year...
09 April 2008

BAA statement
T5 baggage software problem fixed
06 April 2008

Her Majesty the Queen opens Terminal 5
Her Majesty The Queen officially opens BAA’s stunning new £4.3 billion gateway to the UK today (Friday 14 March) – Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5...
14 March 2008

Incident at Heathrow
Airport police swiftly apprehended a man near the northern runway of Heathrow this afternoon....
13 March 2008

BAA supports third runway for Heathrow
BAA has today published its response to the Government’s Heathrow consultation, underlining its support for more efficient use of existing capacity and a third runway...
28 February 2008

Terminal 4 baggage system
"The performance of the Terminal 4 baggage system has today been reduced by an ongoing software problem...
19 February 2008

Runway alternation
Due to the ongoing investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Branch...
28 January 2008

Suspension of runway alternation due to aircraft incident
Following the incident at Heathrow on Thursday January 17, the aircraft has now been removed from the runway. Repairs are necessary, however, to the southern runway as a result of the incident...
22 January 2008

Aircraft incident update
Flight BA038, a Boeing 777 arriving from Beijing, carried out an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport today at 12.42
17 January 2008