BAA PLC ADOPTS AUTODESK ARCHITECTURAL IN A DRIVE TO CUT TERMINAL 5 CONSTRUCTION COSTS

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...especially if you are one of the 63 million passengers who passed through London Heathrow's four existing terminals last year, but the airport actually started life as a tented village in 1946. Then, it served only 18 destinations with a handful of airlines making just 9,000 flights a year. In 2000/01 there were over 90 airlines at this BAA airport, serving around 160 destinations worldwide, operating an average of 1,250 flights per day. Heathrow generates over 5 billion pounds in wages alone each year for the British economy, supporting over 250,000 jobs across the country. Around 108,000 of these jobs are generated by the airport in the local area, of which 68,000 are on-site at the airport. BAA is now the world's largest airport company. Worldwide, almost 130 million passengers passed through BAA airports last year, helping to generate a pre-tax profit of over 500 million pounds and a turnover of nearly 2 billion pounds.