And I Thought American Airports Suck

Thank goodness I am not looking to leave London anytime soon.

With protesters camped outside, and the luggage problems still piling up, bosses at Heathrow might have thought that things couldn't get any worse. Then along came Black Wednesday.

During a morning of chaos, every single plane leaving the airport was late. A survey of 100 departures between 09.40 and 13.05 the day before yesterday showed that none left on time and 14 per cent of them were delayed by more than an hour.
Live flight information boards on the official website of BAA, which runs the airport, showed both long-haul and local flights delayed by up to two and a half hours.

The most lengthy hold-up involved a British Airways flight to Newcastle, which took off two hours and 38 minutes late - longer than the flight time. (emphasis added)

Airpoirt officials blamed weather for the cause of air traffic controllers slowing down flights in the airspace around London, but come--a 100 percent late rate is ridiculous.

Oh, in the same time frame 87 out of 100 flights were late in arriving--surely compounding the problem.