London Banter - View Single Post - Planned engineering work between Acton Town and Hammersmith this weekend

[email protected] · January 7th 13, 09:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
16:10:12 on Sun, 6 Jan 2013, remarked:
Whenever the news reports a "busy day" at Heathrow, the numbers they
quote are usually extremely close to the average. Because most
flights at Heathrow are full, and there's no slots for extra
aircraft, there isn't much of a daily fluctuation.

(From the airport's website, daily average 190k/busiest ever day
233k)

The amount of luggage accompanying the passengers varies more I
suspect. This is the winter holiday period. Business travellers carry
rather less, I have a feeling.

So the people with a problem are the tourists travelling business
class with lots of luggage, rather than the businessmen who would
otherwise be travelling business class with less luggage.

Huh? Where did business class come into it?

You mentioned business passengers.

Travelling at times other than the first weekend after the new year!

Certainly on my flight there was almost no-one in business class

So maybe the airport was quieter than usual.

No, it was full of people in Economy with lots of luggage! Do keep up,
Roland!

but there were a lot of people in Economy with a lot of luggage.

There always are.

Not so much luggage in the summer.

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Colin Rosenstiel