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...airport officials, "initial teething problems." There were also staff shortages: some employees struggled to get through security checkpoints, while others couldn't find the employee parking lot. Only one of the terminal's eighteen elevators was functioning, and at least one handicapped passenger was left stranded curbside - for an hour...
...Terminal 5, which took two decades of planning and construction, boasts 11 miles of baggage conveyors as part of a state-of-the-art system designed to handle up to 12,000 bags an hour. And yet seven flights left on Thursday without luggage. By the early evening the airline had suspended check-in luggage because the terminal's conveyor belt was clogged, and arriving passengers waited up to four hours to reclaim their luggage. Angry scenes reportedly erupted in passport control and baggage claim areas as disgruntled passengers pushed and shoved...
...Yesterday was definitely not British Airways' finest hour," its CEO Willie Walsh said in a statement. "We disappointed many people and I apologize sincerely. I take responsibility for what happened." It's a far cry from the feelings he exuded about the terminal's planned opening in an interview with TIME last year: "Judge me by it ... I'm very confident it will be a fantastic success...
...also the question of the hour. If the violence continues to intensify and the Iraqi government cannot finish what it started then the U.S. must choose whether to throw its troops into the fight. If that happens then the seven-month cease-fire, which was vital to the dramatic drop in violence late last year, will truly be over and a new round of bloodletting may be about to begin...
...last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda International Airport and a pair of all-night 11-hour flights across the Pacific...