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St. Patrick’s Day at Heathrow and Dublin Airports

03/16/13

London’s Heathrow Airport is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with some jigs, courtesy of the O’Sullivan School of Irish Dancing. The children, aged 6 – 16, welcomed passengers arriving into Terminal 5 before taking off to the World Championships in Dublin. Passengers traveling through Heathrow’s terminals today will also be treated to live performances from Irish →

Holidays

Santa arrives – early – at Heathrow Airport

12/03/12

Airports are gearing up for the holiday season and many are planning to offer entertainment, special events and even some contests and give-aways to passengers. With Santa’s arrival this past weekend, it seems that Heathrow Airport is already in the swing of things. Santa handed out iPads to some arriving passengers and will be surprising →

Holidays

Spotted at Heathrow: smiley face security survey

11/26/12

Security

Snack Saturday: Gordon Ramsay Plane Food picnics at Heathrow

11/24/12

As part of a day-long tour of Heathrow Airport on Friday that included visits to the VIP lounge and the Air Traffic Control Tower (details next week, I promise), I had a chance to have lunch in Terminal 5 at Gordon Ramsay’s Plane Food. In addition to “Plane Fast” menus that come in 25 minute →

Food

Heathrow Airport readies for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

05/31/12

London’s Heathrow Airport is getting ready to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jublilee and expects more than 780,000 passengers to fly into town for the festivities between now and June 6th. To set the scene, the airport painted a runway with a giant Union Jack flag and the image of the queen: As passengers arrive, they’ll →

Events

Heathrow Airport gets ready for the 2012 London Olympics

05/08/12

Heathrow Airport gets ready for the 2012 London Olympics →

Events

Royal Wedding: alt activities

04/29/11

Not invited to the Royal Wedding? There are plenty of other - free - things to do in London. →

All about Alain de Botton’s book: A Week at the Airport

10/27/10

A review of Alain de Botton's book, A week at the airport →

Souvenir Sunday at London Heathrow Airport

09/26/10

There’s never enough time to do everything I want to do in London, but on my most recent visit I managed to squeeze in quite a lot in just three days. Activities were wedged in between a meal seasoned with performances by contortionists and flame-embellished dancers at a West End cabaret bar named Circus, Afternoon →

World’s largest mistletoe at Heathrow Airport

11/26/09

Happy Thanksgiving! While you were fretting about getting a gut-busting meal on the table, the folks at Heathrow Airport were busy putting up the world’s largest sprig of mistletoe in Terminal 5. The super-sprig is ten feet by eight-feet, is suspended less than 10 feet from the floor, and “was created to enable the one →

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