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The president of Emirates airlines has said Heathrow Airport is 'not good enough' and looks like a Second World War airport. Sir Tim Clark said the airport was putting its shareholders before running a world-class business. 'I was at Heathrow the other day and walking out of our lounge the ceiling height is awful,' he said. 'It looks like a utilitarian structure, post-Second World War. It is just not good enough.
I'm afraid it's very difficult. You need to open up the whole terminal. Where we are based, new airports are being built employing the latest technologies to streamline the process of all the customer-facing elements. That is not the case at Heathrow.'Heathrow told The Telegraph: 'Every pound we want to spend on improving airport facilities needs approval from our regulator. Despite having our proposals cut back in the current regulatory settlement, we will still invest £3.
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