Day: August 16, 2007

Can you imagine?

The chances of giving birth to identical quadruplets is about one in 13 million, Key said.

Since I’ll be traveling to Heathrow later this year, these two articles caught my eye:

• Braving Heathrow more stressful than sky-diving
• Behind the scenes at Heathrow
• Every flight delayed today

British Airways’ own internal figures show that fewer than a third of its flights – 29 per cent – currently leave on time. And only 60 per cent leave within 15 minutes of their scheduled departure time, one of the worst performances among major airlines.

Passengers waited a staggering 2,434 years in total at Heathrow last year because of flight delays.