Two aircraft were involved in a collision at London's Heathrow airport on yesterday. Fortunately no one was injured.

British Airways confirmed that one of its planes, departing to to Singapore, was involved.  It was also reported that the other plane involved was from Sri Lankan Airways. 

A British Airways spokesman told Reuters: "This was a low-speed taxi-way contact at the wing tips of the planes. Our aircraft returned to its stand and the passengers were offloaded." 

Heathrow, is one of the world's busiest airports it was reported by a Sri Lankan airways passenger that the Sri Lankan Airliner struck the BA plane from behind while turning, narrowly missing the tail and slicing though the wing. 

One surprise for me is that I noticed only two news networks picked this up.  Hence my blog post for those interested in airports.

A terrible time for Willie Walsh the BA CEO.?  What with the worst baggage handling record, New York transatlantic route under increasing competition and threat, fines for price fixing, industrial disputes, who would want his job?  Well Willie of course, quote "I love being CEO, you get all the credit and then get to blame others when things go wrong".

"Heathrow is currently stretched to its limits." Built for approx 45 million passengers a year, yet over 70 million passengers annually endure its crowded terminals and long queues. 

 Airlines wait longer for gates to clear, and the baggage-handling is old and malfunctions a lot.  This of course all exacerbates BA's problems and reputation.  So although the opening of the new terminal cannot ease runway congestion it may make BA look better to passengers.  BA have shifted virtually all it's operations to T5 and will begin business there next spring.  We await the joy of a pleasant fast track, safe luggage journey.  However, I have a feeling that we may pay for this with our pockets.