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Heathrow gets 'best airport' award, closes T1

Paul Heymont 6/29/151:00 PM

Queen Elizabeth opens Heathrow's Terminal 1 in 1968

Amazingly to many of us, London's Heathrow has been named best airport in Europe, picked from among 450 European airports in 46 European countries (did you know there were that many?) The oft-maligned airport beat out Amsterdam and Paris for "best airport over 25 million passengers."

The Telegraph (UK) has a gallery of nostalgic pictures, with then-and-now shots of the terminal.

The honor comes as Heathrow is in the midst of a $17 billion flurry of upgrades and additions that the airport credits, in part, for the award. As part of that program, the airport has just closed its oldest terminal, Terminal 1, to make room for an expansion of Terminal 2. T1 was opened by the Queen in 1968 as the home of British European Airways, since absorbed into British Airways.

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