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From Times Online
September 27, 2007

Fast trains to stop serving Heathrow's terminal 4

SkyTeam airlines will lose out after new Heathrow Express station opens to serve BA' s terminal 5

Mark Frary

Fast Heathrow Express services will no longer stop at the airport’s terminal 4 when terminal 5 opens next spring.

Passengers heading for terminal 4, which will become the hub for airlines in the Skyteam alliance, such as Air France and KLM, will have to take slower Heathrow Connect services or take the fast service to terminals 1, 2 and 3 and change onto the slower service.

From the opening of terminal 5, the home of British Airways and its oneworld partners, Heathrow Express services will take 15 minutes from London Paddington to reach the station for terminals 1, 2 and 3 before heading off to terminal 5, which it will reach 8 minutes later.

Heathrow Connect services from Paddington, which stop at Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, Southall and Hayes & Harlington en route to the airport, will take 25 minutes to terminals 1, 2 and 3 and a further 8 minutes to terminal 4.

It will remain the same for passengers travelling to T4.
They can take the Heathrow Express in Padding and exchange at T 1,2,3 for the Heathrow connect, witch will take the same 8 minutes between terminals.

Rodrigo De Faria, London,

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