The BBC are reporting of the massive problems being experienced in Heathrow's new Terminal 5.
At a cost of £4.3 billion this was to be the best of British. Yet this afternoon check-in at Terminal 5 has been suspended, there are big delays in baggage reclaim and one disabled passenger was even left on a plane for an hour and found when they got to the terminal that there was not a disabled ramp. BA are putting it all down to lack of planning and training "staff familiarisation" problems. Makes you proud to be British! It is a great shame that after the international positive coverage the opening and the engineering got the news around the world will be of something again not working in Britain. One could almost start to feel sorry for Gordon Brown as nothing seems to go right at the moment. Although, of course, its nothing to do with him I do wonder if we are approaching the same mood that allowed the late John Smith to taunt John Major's front bench with the words...
"No wonder we live in a country where the Grand National doesn't start on time and hotels fall into the sea!"
