With the caveat that it's a few years since I was at Heathrow, I think there's at least a newsagent and a snackbar on the landside - although most of the fancy stuff is airside. (Departing passengers are the ones with the time to kill, after all). One thing to remember is that Heathrow deals almost entirely with international flights, so the security (including passport and customs controls) was built-in from the start, instead of having to be added after 911 as might be the case for an airport dealing mostly with domestic flights. (It's also the single busiest airport in the world)
I've been to New York once, which was before 911. I also went to New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina and Thailand just before the tsunami... I keep expecting to get a letter saying I'm banned from further international travel on the grounds of public safety. :)
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Date: 2007-01-05 02:14 pm (UTC)With the caveat that it's a few years since I was at Heathrow, I think there's at least a newsagent and a snackbar on the landside - although most of the fancy stuff is airside. (Departing passengers are the ones with the time to kill, after all). One thing to remember is that Heathrow deals almost entirely with international flights, so the security (including passport and customs controls) was built-in from the start, instead of having to be added after 911 as might be the case for an airport dealing mostly with domestic flights. (It's also the single busiest airport in the world)
I've been to New York once, which was before 911. I also went to New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina and Thailand just before the tsunami... I keep expecting to get a letter saying I'm banned from further international travel on the grounds of public safety. :)
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