Terminal 5....

......tell me this is not England

Oh yes, its going t**s up already isnt it?

hehehehe

Matt

When will people learn that Big Bang approaches are risky and generally a lot more trouble unless there is a real reason to make the change ASAP. A managed staged migration is a lot safer in most cases.

I can see no reason why BA couldn't of transferred domestic flights a month or so before to work out any teething issues with far less passengers. Then after they had worked them out, add short haul again for a month or two find any issues, then finally add long haul.

Don’t try to do everything at once, its a very risky strategy and things will go wrong no matter how much contingency you have in place (or in BA's case none).

Dan

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Its a typical example of englands service industry......service completely rubbish and finished to an incredibly poor standard.

I was involved with the opening of a £400m shopping centre recently, on the opening day nearly everything broke, the roof leaked, tiles grout cracked, escalators broke down, plus various other things.

Everything done nowdays is done cheap and with corners cut for maximum profit, which results in EPIC failure such as Heathrow T5 and Wembley.

England has a name for itself nowdays in the construction and service industries.

Its not uncommon anymore for manual labour and even contractors/subbies/supplier to be sourced from europe and further afield just to ensure that the service and materials that we get are to a high standard.

I blame this guy:

[Viney]

And the terminal in Bejing, which is 3 times as big, took half the time, and a thrid of the money opened, without a hitch!

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Originally Posted by Viney

And the terminal in Bejing, which is 3 times as big, took half the time, and a thrid of the money opened, without a hitch!

Exactly......

But in beijing, if it did go wrong, i expect the people responsible would suffer dire consequences

Not like here in polite england

"terribly sorry old boy, but theres a slight hitch with the baggage system"

"oh, never mind, lets just cancel some planes and get a cup of tea"

Matt

Originally Posted by Viney

And the terminal in Bejing, which is 3 times as big, took half the time, and a thrid of the money opened, without a hitch!

Using slave labour and I bet they got taken out and shot if they complained.

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Originally Posted by Ed

Using slave labour and I bet they got taken out and shot if they complained.

It gets things done though

In all seriousness the firm I work for are international and have several offices in the far east, japan/china/india.

The construction industry is superior and regulated, it is far far ahead of what it used to be.