{"id":94608334,"date":"2012-02-09T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/olympic-record-breaking-summer-for-heathrow-airport-expected\/"},"modified":"2015-10-06T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:57:25","slug":"olympic-record-breaking-summer-for-heathrow-airport-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/olympic-record-breaking-summer-for-heathrow-airport-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Record Breaking Summer for Heathrow Airport Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t Expect Empty Seats!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It looks like this summer’s going to be a busy one at London’s Heathrow Airport. An estimated 80% of all visitors with flights to London<\/a><\/strong> for\u00a0 the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to pass through the airport. That’s almost 60,000 passengers including 12,850 athletes and 14,700 accredited media as well as marketing partners, officials and \u2013 of course \u2013 the spectators. To ensure that these visitors’ first experience of London and the UK before the Olympics will be a positive one, the British Airports Authority (BAA) is upping its game to deal with the high volume of flyers.
\nNormand Boivin, Chief Operating Officer for Heathrow Airport, along with his \u201cTeam Heathrow\u201d at BAA have designated the period between June 27th to the 1st of October as the \u201ccritical period for the airport to focus on the Games.\u201d The three month timeframe stretches well ahead of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on July 27th to well after the Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony on September 9th.
\nPeak times for arrivals and departures when \u201cpassenger and baggage volumes will be the most challenging Heathrow has ever faced\u201d will include the following dates:
\n\u2022 July 16th: Peak day for arrival of Olympic athletes;
\n\u2022 July 26th: The day before the Olympic Opening Ceremony and peak day for arrival of sponsors\/media;
\n\u2022 August 13th: The day after the Olympic Closing Ceremony;
\n\u2022 August 22nd: Peak day for arrival of Paralympic athletes;
\n\u2022 August 28th: The day before the Paralympic Opening Ceremony and peak day for arrival of sponsors\/media; and
\n\u2022 September 10th: The day after the Paralympic Closing Ceremony.
\nThe single busiest day during this time as well as the busiest in all of Heathrow’s almost 85 years of history is expected to be August the 13th, the day after the London 2012 Olympic Games closing Ceremony, when approximately 138,000 departing passengers (45% more than usual) will pass through the airport en route to destinations across the globe.<\/p>\n

To meet the demands of so many extra passengers, fifty full-time BAA staff members are working as part of \u201cTeam Heathrow\u201d to prepare the airport for the Games with more staff as well as a thousand volunteers lined up to join in on Olympic related duties as the Games draw nearer. One measure of particular focus is to open a separate temporary terminal for exclusive use by more than 10,000 departing athletes. Features such as bag collection from the Olympic Village as well as extra lifts to link Paralympians in wheelchairs with their equipment are hoped to ease the logistical strains of the summer.
\nFor more details on how Heathrow is \u201cfine tuning\u201d its activities for the upcoming Olympics (not to mention the usual influx of tourists and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations this summer), check out BAA’s recently published \u201cSix Months to Go\u201d document<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Don’t Expect Empty Seats!   It looks like this summer’s going to be a busy one at London’s Heathrow Airport. An estimated 80% of all visitors with flights to London for\u00a0 the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to pass through the airport. That’s almost 60,000 passengers including 12,850 athletes and 14,700 accredited media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97172945,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608334\/revisions\/97172945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}