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Last Thursday Terminal 5 was opened at Heathrow Airport. British Airways may now wish that it never happened. Since the opening 245 flights have had to be canceled.

British Airways are the sole tenant of Terminal 5. Things are so bad that the British transport secretary has offered support from the government to help resolve the problems.

The main cause of the problems has been the baggage system. Over 15,000 bags have been stranded in the opening few days.

British Airways chief executive has said the baggage system is now working well.

David Frost, director general of British Chambers of Commerce has called the opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow a public relations disaster. Contrast this with the recent opening of the new terminal at Beijing’s Capital Airport. It seems to be all going well in China.

As British Airways are the only airline using the new terminal it would be best to avoid BA flights until the problems have been sorted out.

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Video footage showing Lufthansa flight LH44 from Munich attempting to land at Hamburg tells a remarkable story about how powerful nature can be. In the video you can see that the plane is pushed off course by fierce winds as the pilot attempted to land the Airbus 320.

The dramatic footage shows the plane approaching the runway clearly affected by strong winds from hurricane Emma. Just as the plane is about to touchdown a huge gust of wind spins the plane like a toy and results in the left wing almost touching the ground.

The quick thinking by the pilot avoided disaster as he gave the engines more power to enable the plane to abort the landing.

See the video for yourself…

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Today marked the return of Virgin Blue on the Canberra-Sydney air route. It has been two and a half years since Virgin Blue last flew between the two cities.

The first flight from Canberra took off on a rainy morning at 6.25 am. A keen airline buff Peter, from Canberra, said he enjoyed his flight on one of the new Embraer jets which Virgin Blue will be using on the route. Peter was so keen he booked on the re-launch flight and then flew straight back to Canberra on the next available flight. Peter said the Embraer jet was a lot more pleasant to fly on compared to the Dash 8 used by Qantas.

Virgin Blue have eight direct flights a day from Canberra to Sydney and also eight from Sydney to Canberra. Looking at the Virgin Blue website as I write there are flights available from $69 available tomorrow. If you are thinking of a weekend getaway to Canberra from Sydney there are even some seats available on Friday afternoon at this low fare.

I welcome the commencement of the new service as I must say I have not enjoyed flying on the Qantas Dash 8 planes. Also the price competition has been sorely missed as Qantas has had a recent mononpoly on this route.

I must admit that recently instead of taking a flight to Sydney from Canberra when going overseas my family and I have jumped in a hire car. The Qantas fares have just been too high to make it cheap enough to fly.