Chaos at Heathrow terminal five - how do you cope with airport delays?

Yes, I feel really sorry for the poor passengers stuck at the new terminal five at Heathrow Airport. It used to be a busy place when it had four terminals. I am sure things are even worse there now. I went there to fly to St Lucia but costumes wanted to search the plane before it next flew out. This led to a four hour delay and then a ten hour flight. So my mum and I were really tired before arriving on the lovely island in the Caribbean. I also had a delay of all night in Athens Airport and many flights were affected. Hundreds of passengers were sitting on the ground because all the seats were taken. That was a tiring and very uncomfortable night on the airport floor. I flew from the Seychelles to Nairobi and had a six hour wait there. The airport lounge was boring and I liked shopping for more souvenirs. I have had flights in the middle of the night and got to the airport the previous evening to wait the time out. I so love to travel.

hi fizzy! what i do is read, roam around, talk to whoever is with me, sleep, eat. etc. i try to occupy myself because i easily get bored. i ask question but i dont complained. getting into a heated discussion will just make matters worse and i think i will just be at the losing end for losing my temper. anyway, my longest delay was just a few hours, not a day or so. so, so far, so good. how was your trip to istanbul? why did you stay there for 3 months? :) good day!@

In all my years of travel, I have not been unnecessarily delayed at airports due to any kind of new implementation. I heard about the delays as a result of the new Heathrow Airport terminal opening, and I feel sorry for those who were hit by the problem. I think the luggage delays all happened because prior to the opening, not enough load testing was done to ensure that the new terminal systems and operations could cope with the loads and restrictions on luggages that might be expected. Just my guess. As in all new massive implementations, thorough testing prior to implementations play a big and critical part in success.

It's a horrific situation, but I guess it wasn't too unlikely to happen. I'm lucky, that the only time I've been delayed seriously, I was with a group of friends.

it was just on the news again, they got a few pics from airport source,showing pile and piles of luggages. They showed one person who wore all his clothes to get around the problem. actually it has been nearly seven years since i have been on a plane, i got my luggage quickly then and i had landed at heathrow.

I am very lucky to have not been delayed for longer than 30 minutes on a flight. I tend to manage to have a good wander around the airport get a meal and find a book or magazine to read while I am hanging around but obviously if this was going to be more than a few hours then itw oudl be very tricky trying to pass the time.