Time Flies: The Heathrow Story - Softcover

Gallop, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075246583X ISBN 13: 9780752465838

Publisher: The History Press, 2012

Synopsis

On January 1, 1946 a handful of staff at London’s new peace-time airport, Heathrow, prepared to handle its first commercial flight in a converted Lancaster bomber, carrying 10 passengers and some newly demobbed RAF pilots, radio officers, and flight engineers on an epic journey to South America. Sixty-five years, over 14 million flights and 1.4 billion passengers later, Heathrow—with a staff of around 50,000 people—recently saw its controversial fifth passenger terminal weather a rocky start and find its feet as an integral part of this ever-expanding airport. Time Flies is a fascinating history of Heathrow from its pioneering first days in bruised and battered postwar West London, right up to its present. Bringing together Heathrow’s human and commercial histories and using first-hand stories from each decade of the airport’s operations, this is a balanced and entertaining look at the triumphs, tribulations, and controversies that made Heathrow what it is today.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Gallop worked at Heathrow as a reporter with a national news agency from 1966 to 1978, covering every conceivable type of story for the international media. He was one of the team that launched the airport newspaper, Skyport. Since the early 1980s he has represented a number of Heathrow-based airlines in a public relations capacity as well as writing promotional books for international airports in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 075246583X
• ISBN 13: 9780752465838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240