Heathrow Opens Fifth Terminal in Bid to Ease Congestion: Video

London's Heathrow Airport opens its fifth passenger terminal today after almost two decades of planning amid criticism the 4.3 billion-pound ($8.6 billion) building will fail to ease congestion on the runways. Before today's opening, Heathrow was handling 68 million passengers a year in buildings meant for 45 million. While Terminal 5 will expand capacity to 75 million people a year, the airport is forecast by BAA to surpass that number in 2013. Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat reports.(Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg | March 27, 2008

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