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Aviation History
1967
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562 FLIGHT International, 5 October (967 . MOVEMENT OF ARRIVING PASSENGER MOVEMENT OF DEPARTING PASSENGERS MOVEMENT OF LUGGAGE ENTRANCES FOR CARS AND COACHES The arrivals level (ground floor) of Heathrow's new No I passenger terminal, showing: (/) airside baggage sorting; (2) town terminal coach road; (3) escalator to international departures; (4) escalator to domestic de- partures; (5) international transfer balcony; (6) domestic transfer balcony; (7) arrivals immigration control; (8) international baggage reclaim; (9) international customs control; (10) domestic baggage reclaim; (I I) public arrivals concourse; (12) arrival level road for cars BUILDING THE HEATHROW OF THE SEVENTIES . . . The departures level of the passenger terminal, showing: (I) restaurant floor; (2) international departures; (3) domestic departures; (4) inter- national airside lounge; (5) domestic air side lounge; (6) check-in desks; (7) international airside coach station; (8) domestic airside coach station; (9) office gallery A ramp brings cars to the first-floor level of the new passenger terminal (below), in front of the terminal building is foundation work for a multi-storey car park which will give direct access to the terminal running continuously round the building at third floor level. The terminal building is of dry construction with a widely spaced steel frame and deep trusses forming a service space. It will be air-conditioned, with double glazing for noise insulation where necessary. The capacity of the terminal will be 4,700 passengers an hour, made up of 1,450 international and 900 domestic passengers in each direction. This will in effect increase the existing capacity of the airport by about two-thirds. With the re-modelled Europa and Britannia terminals, the airport capacity will rise to 12,600 passengers an hour, a figure which the British Airports Authority considers adequate to cope with traffic expansion in the early 1970s—by which time Heathrow's 12 million passengers a year will probably have risen to about 20 million. One-hundred-and-sixty acres is the area of land set aside for the new cargo terminal now under construction on the south- west side of Heathrow Airport, just to the south of runway 28L/10R. This facility, which will cost in all some £23 million, should be open by the end of next year, with further extensions coming into operation in 1970-72. The cargo terminal has evolved from the deliberations of the Air Freight Working Party which reported in 1963. Represented on this were the airlines, HM Customs, the forwarding agents, and the then Ministry of Aviation as predecessor of the British Airports Authority in the operation of Heathrow Airport. The growth of air cargo which has made necessary the development of facilities on this scale shows signs not only of continuing but also of accelerating. Total traffic on worldwide
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