Welcome to Heathrow Terminal, er, Samsung Galaxy S5 Samsung has decided to allow its marketing department's imaginations to take flight, which has resulted in a rather crap plan to effectively rename Heathrow's Terminal Five. The mega airport terminal in London will feature signs that read "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5" in a move a Sammy exec described as "one-off opportunity to …
Not sure why Samsung would want to be associated with T5 anyway. What's their next move "Samsung sponsors the Auschwitz experience" ?
Whose idea was it to build a terminal at the worlds busiest international airport, specifically for the worlds favourite airline (!) and have no transit passenger connection to the other terminals?
We nearly missed a flight because it took an hour for my non-Eu colleague to get through immigration.
Hint to UK border agency, 40 year old Canadian engineers with a Canadian passport and a business class ticket on an Air Canada flight to Canada leaving in 2hours are unlikely to be secret asylum seekers.
> Hint to UK border agency, 40 year old Canadian engineers with a Canadian passport and a business class ticket on an Air Canada flight to Canada leaving in 2hours are unlikely to be secret asylum seekers
I don't blame them. If I saw 40 toddlers claiming to have an engineering degree I'd be asking questions myself.
Blackberry took over Euston last year and wrapped all the passages in 360° marketing material. It was like the black hole of Calcutta down there - they don't seem to realise that lighting levels etc are very carefully designed in during the building of these places. Heat build up being a significant factor in trying to keep the watts as low as possible.
I haven't used it myself... but those of my friends who have, tell me that T5 is a whole different experience from the rest of Heathrow. That's why they've gone out of their way not to connect the two. T5 is for when they actually care what the travellers think, which is why it's reserved for BA - British airline profits from (relatively speaking) luxury treatment for its travellers, at the expense of everyone else.
That's reading way too much into it. T5 is for BA (and Iberia, part of IAG and the Oneworld alliance). The idea was to consolidate as many flights as possible from BA in order to make transfers that much easier. Unfortunately there's still some overspill - Gibraltar and Lisbon still go from T3 for example.
It's the way Heathrow is going, btw - T2 is going to be for Star Alliance airlines when it opens, T4 is for SkyTeam airlines and so on.
Just as T5 loses your bags, the SG5 loses your connections?
One terrifying fact I heard (and it was on Radio 4 so it must be true), was that a new warship had automated it's munitions transport procedure to slash the number of crew needed "based on the baggage handling systems in Heathrow Terminal 5".
One terrifying fact I heard (and it was on Radio 4 so it must be true), was that a new warship had automated it's munitions transport procedure to slash the number of crew needed "based on the baggage handling systems in Heathrow Terminal 5".
Wow, now I'm *really* worried about the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heathrow...
One third of all traffic through Heathrow airport (in reality, probably only 1 sixth of passengers, as they count as a landing and a takeoff), we are told, are in transit. That is they catch a plane, change at Heathrow and fly off somewhere else. No tourism in the UK, no hotels, no spending money here (apart from getting mugged by the prices in the airport itself): just in - wait - out.
So for these people all they want is to get off one plane and find out where to go to catch the next one. If their english ain't great, and the directions to the terminal for the flight out seem to indicate you'll be flying on some sort of smartphone, will that really instill confidence and ease, or will it be a WTF moment?
Guilt by association is never a clever ploy. To constantly remind travellers of the terrible time they had, wandering around LHR trying to find their terminal, every time they see an advert for Samsung doesn't sound like great marketing. I wonder it it's really Apple who are paying for this renaming exercise? Could Sammy pay for the tax office to be renamed Her Majesty's Apple Revenue and Customs in retaliation.
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Anyone wanting a long haul flight with a decent airline?
Sure it used to be REALLY crap, but T5 is not too bad, and T3 has been spruced up (still long bloody walks to the gates though.....)
I actually don't mind T3 at heathrow, and since I've never had a good BA flight i'm sticking to flying Virgin for now.. (although with the delta merge I am concerned that quality will fall)
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One way to retaliate is to call T5 by any brand name EXCEPT Samsung.
Since Samsung's biggest competitor is Apple, people could call it the
Terminal Apple iPad5 .
But if you hate Apple, call it instead Terminal Lucozade5 .
In fact the trick would be to call T5 after AS MANY brands as posible
( including your local butchers ).
"That's the nice thing about period pieces. No product placement!"
Ehhh, what about those women parachuting and playing volley ball on the beach? As for product placement I think it is called an applicator and is like a giant straw although beer tastes rubbish when drunk through it.
Airport authorities are doing their best to transform them into some kind of luna park and get their revenues from any silly idea they can think of. Easing the life of passengers travelling is no longer the reason airport are built and managed.
This idea is really silly, because passengner unware of what some incredibly stupid and arrogant people at Samsung planned, could easily get confused by this highly idiot mixture of needed informations and ads. I would force Samsung executives to walk around dressed like an S5 at least for six months, after approving something so silly. Let's see if looking idiot outside will make them less idiot inside.
To be fair Heathrow was never intended as an airport - it was just that the world's biggest perpetual building site attracted so many visitors that they had to put in some transport links and the only practical way to reach central Heathrow from London was to fly.
I seem to remember that Biggles and pals flew out of the civilian Heathrow airport in the late 1940s. There was a description of the tents that functioned as the terminal buildings.
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Corporate re-naming
"Here's a load of money - now you are my plaything and I have got a great bargain on advertising."
The only thing left in London that our wonderful Mayor hasn't had re-labelled is City Hall, but, seeing as you never see him there without a Costa cup it's only a matter of time before it becomes Costa City Centre.
So are they changing the terminal ID on boarding passes as well? If they do it will cause all sorts of systems to crash from buffer overflows; but if they don't passengers are going to get very lost and confused when they are looking for Terminal 5 and can't find it.
They launched helium filled balloons containing vouchers for free phones, and some of the crowd took matters into their own hands (and used their own BB guns) trying to get them. Ill advised maybe, but not reckless.
It also seems that Samsung have been economical with the truth. All they have done is bought regular advertising space, not changed any of the official signs. Still tacky though.
"Named for" does not tell you the name, it just tells you how it came about it. So if a company want to pay you millions to name a structure "Fred", that would still be naming it *for* them. But if a company wants you to name to a structure with their name, then you are naming it *after* them.
No-one thinks these things are named in memorial of a company. Things get named after companies either because they built it, they own it, or they paid for the privilege.
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Captain Scott wrote "My god, this is a bloody awful place" about Antarctica because Heathrow and in particular Terminal 5 bad not been built then. Admittedly it comes as a shock to wind up there after departing Changi or Chep Lak Kok but the place has to be the pits by anyone's standards.
Samsung must have rocks in their corporate heads.
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