Mobile tyres fitting service in Heathrow Airport Area
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head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
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More about Heathrow Airport Area
London Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL),
often referred to as Heathrow, is the United Kingdom's
busiest and best-connected airport. It is the busiest
airport in Europe in terms of total passenger traffic,
and the third-busiest behind Paris Charles de Gaulle
Airport and Frankfurt International Airport in terms of
plane movements and cargo traffic.
In terms of international passenger traffic Heathrow
Airport is the busiest airport in the world. By total
passenger traffic it is the world's third-busiest
airport.
Heathrow is located in the London Borough of Hillingdon,
15 miles (24 km) west of Charing Cross in Central
London.
Heathrow began in the 1930s as the Great Western
Aerodrome, privately owned by Fairey Aviation, primarily
for testing, the land being acquired from the vicar of
Harmondsworth. The airport was named after the hamlet
Heath Row, which was demolished to make way for the
airport and was located approximately where Terminal 3
is sited now. It had no commercial traffic and Croydon
Airport was then the main airport for London.
In 1944 Heathrow came under control of the Ministry of
Air. Harold Balfour (later Lord Balfour), then
Under-Secretary of State for Air (1938-1944), wrote in
his 1973 autobiography Wings over Westminster that he
deliberately deceived the government committee that a
requisition was necessary in order that Heathrow could
be used as a base for long-range transport aircraft in
support of the war with Japan. In fact, Balfour wrote,
he always intended the site to be used for civil
aviation and used a wartime emergency requisition order
to avoid a lengthy and costly public inquiry. The Royal
Air Force never made use of the airport and control was
transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 1
January 1946, the first civil flight that day being to
Buenos Aires, via Lisbon for refuelling.
The airport opened fully for civilian use on 31 May
1946. By 1947 Heathrow had three runways with three more
under construction. These older runways, built for
piston-engined planes, were short, and criss-crossed to
allow flights in all wind conditions. The first concrete
slab of the first modern runway was ceremonially placed
by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. She also opened the first
terminal building, the Europa Building (later Terminal
2), in 1955. Shortly afterwards the Oceanic Terminal
(later Terminal 3) became operational. Terminal 1 was
opened in 1968, completing the cluster of buildings at
the centre of the Heathrow site. The location of the
original terminals in the centre of the site has since
become a constraint to expansion. This decision was due
to an early assumption that airline passengers would not
require extensive car parking, as air travel was then
only affordable to the wealthy, who would be
chauffeur-driven.
In 1977, the London Underground was extended to
Heathrow, connecting the airport with Central London in
just under an hour via the Piccadilly Line. Currently
the loop to Terminal 4 is inactive, with all underground
trains terminating at the station for Terminals 1, 2 and
3. This is to allow the connection of a spur line to
Terminal 5; this extension is currently dubbed "PiccEx",
an abbreviation of "Piccadilly Line Extension". The
original T4/T123 stations loop is expected to re-open in
2007.
Terminal 4 was built away from the three older
terminals, to the south of the southern runway. The
terminal opened in 1986 and became the home for then
newly privatised British Airways. In 1987, the British
Government privatised the British Airports Authority
(now just "BAA plc"), which included seven of Britain's
airports, including Heathrow.
Heathrow at present has four passenger terminals
(numbered 1 to 4) and a cargo terminal. Permission for a
fifth passenger terminal (Terminal 5) was granted in
November 2001, and construction is now well under way.
As originally constructed, Heathrow had six runways,
arranged in three pairs at different angles, with the
passenger terminal in the centre. With growth in the
required length for runways, Heathrow presently has just
two parallel runways running east-west. Runway 23, a
short runway for use in strong South-Westerly winds, was
recently decommissioned and now forms part of taxiway A.
The Department for Transport has issued a 'consultation
document' in which one option is the construction of a
third parallel east-west runway for frequent use,
involving the demolition of local residential areas.
Overnight flights into Heathrow are currently restricted
by government order, with preference for quieter
airliners, but could be eliminated entirely if the
government loses its appeal against a recent judgement
by the European Court of Human Rights.
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