How many people does it take to change a light bulb in the roof inside Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5? No one at London’s main airport knows - but they do need to be high-wire artists. The ...

FILE PHOTO: A British Airways passenger plane prepares to land at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, March 28, 2008. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo (Reuters) - London's Heathrow ...

Having the new terminal all to itself will allow BA, Britain's largest carrier, to shift 92 percent of its Heathrow passenger traffic to T-5 and streamline its service at Britain's largest airport.

A new terminal at Heathrow airport has been given the go-ahead. London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Hillingdon Council gave planning permission for a £1.5bn redevelopment of the west London airport.

London Heathrow airport’s latest building, Terminal 5, launched last month after almost two decades of planning, $8.5 billion dollars in cost, and 100 million hours in manpower.

Plans for Terminal 5 were first mooted in the mid-1980s, and the airport's operator BAA sought planning permission in 1993 to develop the huge terminal on Heathrow's western perimeter. After eight ...