London Heathrow #1

Two days ago I transited through London Heathrow [ICAO code: EGLL] airport - a memorable experience as it turned out!

I had never transited through Heathrow before. It is a huge airport, and I knew I had to go through immigration and transfer from terminal 5 to terminal 1. I had 3 hours to do it.

Turns out it was very very easy! On arrival, I asked and was directed to the terminal transfer bus. This resulted in a 17/ 18 minute ride around airside to get to terminal 1 - a free airside tour thrown in :-) Nice. Immigration was done in terminal 1 and it didn't take long before I was in the very familiar surroundings of the terminal 1 departure area.

I was heading to Dublin, and so after a feed, a walk around and a few photos, I headed to the departure gates - waiting at gate 8 initially, before being directed to gate 78 - a long walk, although probably only 5 minutes.

Anyway, here are a few photos from the main terminal 1 area - from behind the Giraffe food outlet. Top to bottom we have:

Boeing 787-8, N961AM, of AeroMexico
Boeing 737-8K2, PH-BXA, of KLM in an historic livery
Boeing 777-368/ER, HZ-AK13, of Saudi Arabian
Boeing 777-336ER, G-STBK, of British Airways
Airbus A380-841, 9M-MND [as best I can tell], of Malaysia Airlines

Europe Trip 2013: London Heathrow

In this second-last aviation post from my recent trip to the UK and Europe, I have a small number of pictures from London Heathrow, Terminal 4. Most of the time, it seems that Heathrow terminals are not great for photography [although that might be due to a fair number of night flights and I've never flown from Terminal 5], but T4 has plenty of places to have a good look out across the airfield., Another bonus of that T4 is very close to runway 27 L which was the landing runway during the time I was there. A nice bonus :-)

Anyway, on to the photos. I have just a small sample of some of the more interesting aircraft I saw in an hour or so. Top to bottom we have:

Airbus A330-223, B-6547, China Southern Airlines and my ride from Heathrow to Guangzhou
Boeing 767-432/ER, N845MH, Delta Air Lines
Boeing 777-2U8/ER, 5Y-KYZ, Kenya Airways
Boeing 767-2B1/ER, XA-OAM, AeroMexico
Airbus A300B4-662(F), D-AEAE, DHL (European Air Transport) - converted from a passenger A300.
A view from T4 across to T1/2/3. Note two A380's and the Control Tower. Nice :-)