{"id":2025,"date":"2009-10-23T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2009-10-23T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T06:18:02","slug":"london-heathrow-airport-london-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/airline-travel\/london-heathrow-airport-london-airport","title":{"rendered":"London Heathrow Airport &#8211; World&#039;s Worst Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oh Dear, <strong>World&#8217;s Worst Airport<\/strong> Again!<\/p>\n<p>Members of Priority Pass, the world\u2019s leading independent airport lounge programme, have voted <strong>London Heathrow Airport<\/strong> the World&#8217;s Worst Airport for the second year in a row.  Responses to the annual survey came from 160 countries and the respondents have taken, on average, 17 flights in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, <strong>Heathrow <\/strong>doesn&#8217;t have the excuse that they had last year with the ill-fated opening of <strong>Terminal 5<\/strong> and the ensuing teething problems.<\/p>\n<p>Although Priority Pass members are not a representative sample of travellers that pass through Heathrow, they do know what a good airport experience should be.<\/p>\n<p>For the humble traveller what we must have<strong> as a minimum<\/strong> are <strong>baggage trolleys<\/strong>, quick and<strong> hassle-free<\/strong> <strong>check-ins<\/strong>, <strong>no queues<\/strong>, no surly security staff and <strong>on-time departures<\/strong>. Free internet, good coffee and affordable food would make for a pleasant experience and all other services would add to making it a great airport.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u2019s chief operating officer, Mike Brown said<em> &#8220;We are working very hard to make every passenger\u2019s journey to or from better than the last one &#8230;&#8230;  we are rebuilding an airport of which the UK can be rightly proud.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Terminal 5<\/strong> was completed it was hailed as one of the most spectacular architectural spaces in modern Britain!\u00a0  So, what&#8217;s gone wrong with the services?<\/p>\n<p><strong>LHR <\/strong>should take a leaf out of <strong>Singapore&#8217;s Changi Airport<\/strong> the perennial favourite with travellers of all classes.  At Changi Airport they understand what it takes to make the passenger&#8217;s journey a pleasant experience and they never stop trying to make it better. Changi is an airport that most travellers are happy to stop at!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Dear, World&#8217;s Worst Airport Again! Members of Priority Pass, the world\u2019s leading independent airport lounge programme, have voted London Heathrow Airport the World&#8217;s Worst Airport for the second year in a row. Responses to the annual survey came from 160 countries and the respondents have taken, on average, 17 flights in the past year. 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