T5 Landside

This is Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, intended to be the global hub for British Airways. Although you cannot criticize Britain's largest airline, and one of the big three national carriers in Europe, for running ghost flights (in fact the flight taken by myself from London to Beijing was virtually full), many small to medium sized airlines such as bmi are feeling the pinch of the fuel crisis which has meant that one airline a week this year has gone bankrupt and has caused trouble for other airlines. Notable casualties this year include Silverjet, the business class only airline and Oasis, a Hong Kong based low cost carrier.