T2 Heathrow: a new bright departure

Anyone who has flown from Dublin, Cork or Belfast into T1 in Heathrow will recall how long a trek it was to arrivals. Well say goodbye to all that, and hello to the bright, shiny T2.

NO LONGER must you walk the walk. You remember the walk, don’t you? The quick step that for many mutated into a run — and from there a sprint — when they realised the gate was closing, and they were at least 10 minutes away from it? The walk that added what seemed like half an hour from checking in to reaching the departures gate? The walk that ended in giving you a major sweat and that made you reckon you deserved a sit down and a certificate for not being late? You remember that walk, don’t you?

Well, you can forget about it now, because that walk is no more. It has, in some of the words of Monty Python’s famous parrot sketch, passed on, ceased to be, expired.