Over the previous year, the majority of flights have been moved from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 and as a result, over 60% of Heathrow passengers will pass through new facilities in either Terminal 5 or Terminal 2.
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Heathrow Terminal 1, opened by the Queen in 1969, is saying goodbye to its final passengers today.
British Airways now operates approximately 700 flights a day at Heathrow and carries more than 110,000 customers to and from the airport on busy days.
T1 opened as the largest airport terminal in Europe and went on to handle nine million passengers at full capacity, mainly operating short haul flights.
According to the gateway, the terminal’s closure will pave the way for “improved service and wayfinding around the airport and eventually an extension of the new Terminal 2”.
Heathrow chief executive John Holland Kaye said; “The closure of Terminal 1 marks another important milestone in the transformation of Heathrow”.
Terminal 2 will be expanded to take the place of Terminal 1 and if the government supports a third runway at Heathrow then Terminal 2 will be extended further still. “T1 served Britain well for almost 50 years”.
The last flight to depart Terminal 1 was scheduled to be BA970 to Hanover at 9.15pm and the last arrival BA144 from Baku at 10.40pm.
That makes the ex- BEA airline both the first and last to operate out of this terminal.
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“We are continuing to modernise Terminal 3 with a new departures area under construction, which will include a new premium zone. We are also using Heathrow’s new integrated baggage system which connects Terminal 3 and Terminal 5 together for the first time”.
