Heathrow Terminal 1 is an airport terminal at London Heathrow Airport, serving the British capital city of London, used primarily by BMI and Star Alliance airlines. Terminal 1 was opened in 1968 and was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 1969. At the time Terminal 1 was the biggest short-haul terminal of its kind in Western Europe.[1] In 2005, a substantial redesign and redevelopment of Terminal 1 was completed, which saw the opening of the new Eastern Extension, doubling the departure lounge in size and creating additional seating and retail space. Destinations from Terminal 1 include domestic airports, all Irish routes along with a wide range of European and long haul destinations. Heathrow Terminal 1 is expected to close around 2013/14 to allow for construction of the second phase of the new Terminal 2 to begin, scheduled for completion in 2019. At that point, the Star Alliance members that will then be occupying Terminal 1 will move into the newly constructed first phase of Terminal 2.
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Terminal 1 is set to be closed and demolished shortly after the new Terminal 2 becomes operational. This is currently expected to be in January 2014. The site will be used to allow the new Terminal 2 to be extended to twice its original size, probably by 2019.
Unlike Terminal 5, Terminal 1 Domestic flights and Irish flights have a completely separate departure/arrival area from other (International) flights. This was originally used for all domestic flights at Heathrow, until British Airways moved all its domestic flights to Terminal 5 when it opened. It is still used by Aer Lingus and BMI.
Following the departure of British Airways from the terminal the area was redesigned so that all passengers pass through the international departure lounge. Domestic and Republic of Ireland passengers pass through an ID check where a photo taken of them at security control is checked to ensure that the correct person is entering the domestic and Irish departure area.
There is separation between arriving and departing passengers within the International section, although the terminal was not originally built to cater for this separation. A new pier was added which increased the capacity of the terminal.
Due to the construction of Terminal 5, most British Airways flights had already moved out of Terminal 1 to Terminal 5 by 2008. The remaining British Airways flights moved to Terminal 3 on 25 February 2009, later than originally planned. Finnair, a member of the oneworld alliance, moved to Terminal 3 in January 2009, to join other oneworld carriers.
Twelve members of the Star Alliance will be in Terminal 1 after the re-organisation. Eight of them will remain in Terminal 3, however, because of lack of space in Terminal 1 and because there are no stands in Terminal 1 for the A380 used by Singapore Airlines. TAM, a future member of the alliance moved in March 2010; for the time being United Airlines flights to Houston and Newark will continue to use Terminal 4 until the new Terminal 2 (Heathrow East) is completed.
Asiana, BMI, LOT and South African Airways were already in Terminal 1. US Airways did not operate from Heathrow until March 2008, when the EU–U.S. Open Skies Agreement came into effect. Air New Zealand and United Airlines moved from Terminal 3 in July 2008.
Star Alliance members that were operating from Terminal 2 (Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, Swiss and TAP) moved to Terminal 1 in June 2009.
On 25 October 2009, Aegean Airlines has moved its twice daily Athens to London flights from London Stansted Airport to Heathrow Airport. These flights depart from Terminal 1, as Aegean Airlines joins Star Alliance in May 2010. Aegean Airlines flights to and from Salonica anf Heraclion (seasonal) also fly from Terminal 1, but the carriers flights to and from Larnaca in Cyprus use Terminal 4.
Most non-allied airlines will move to London Heathrow Terminal 4, but with some exceptions:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Larnaca |
| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, Shannon |
| Air New Zealand | Auckland, Hong Kong, Los Angeles |
| Asiana Airlines | Seoul-Incheon |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna |
| BMI | Aberdeen, Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amman, Baku, Basel, Beirut, Bergen, Belfast-City, Bishkek, Cairo, Casablanca, Damascus, Dammam, Dublin, Edinburgh, Freetown, Hannover, Jeddah, Khartoum, Manchester, Marrakech, Moscow-Domodedovo, Riyadh, Stavanger, Tbilisi, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna, Yerevan |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Croatia Airlines | Zagreb |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca, Paphos |
| El Al | Tel Aviv |
| Icelandair | Reykjavik-Keflavik |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| Lufthansa | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich |
| Lufthansa operated by BMI | Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn |
| Lufthansa operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Stuttgart |
| South African Airways | Cape Town, Johannesburg |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| Swiss operated by Swiss European Airlines | Geneva |
| TAM Airlines | Rio de Janeiro Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles |
| US Airways | Philadelphia |
As part of the three central terminals at Heathrow, it is well linked to the M4 motorway via the M4 spur road and through a tunnel under the north runway. There is a short stay car park directly opposite the terminal and there is also a long stay car park on the Northern Perimeter Road by the northern entrance to the tunnel accessed by a shuttle bus service.
Terminal 1 is accessed by the London Underground from Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 tube station, with trains towards Cockfosters station via Central London. The Terminal is also accessed by Heathrow Connect and Express from Heathrow Central were services go to London Paddington. Heathrow Connect services are due to be replaced by Crossrail when it finally opens at some point in the future and services would be increased from 2 trains per hour (about every 30 minutes) to 4 trains per hour (about every 15 minutes).
Terminal 1 is accessible to both bus and coach services from Heathrow central bus station. Current services are:[2]
* - Buses marked with an asterisk run as part of the London bus network on behalf of TfL
There are also several coach services operated by National Express
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