Kiss’ n’ fly at T5 I LOVE YOU
April 15, 2008 at 5:31 am | In Uncategorized | 3 CommentsTags: Advertising, Candles, English-only, French, German, Health & Safety, Heathrow airport, I love you, Italian, Languages, Messages, Not multi-lingual!, T5, Videos, Welsh
We reached spacious and specious T5 to find there are plenty of multimedia reminders for kiss’ n’ fliers. For example, we watched a variety of ‘I LOVE YOU’ images being created on screen after check in. Personally, I was disappointed these ads were not multilingual 
So much for an international gateway to/for the 21st century.
What about:
DW I’N DY GARU DI
JE T’AIME
ICH LIEBE DICH
TI AMO
for starters?
Admittedly, Welsh does look rather inefficient, in terms of the number of candles required—not to mention those tricky apostrophes needed for Welsh and French alike—but Italian still beats English for getting the message across in the most succinct and romantic fashion 
Unfortunately, I was reminded of the story in the Times about the man who wanted to treat his girlfriend at St. Pancras, in Station champagne romance hits health and safety buffers—a sad tale about Great British bureaucracy extinguishing the flames of romance before they were even lit! This must be why Heathrow sticks to videos of candles, in suspended animations from the ceiling …
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Update: My husband has been sitting on a plane on the tarmac at T5 for the past three hours. His flight has allegedly had engine, fuel, baggage and paperwork problems so far. What’s next?
Thanks for this link, Sarah:
Comment by inel — April 15, 2008 #
Good to hear there were some sackings over this fiasco!
Comment by matt — April 21, 2008 #
waaaaaaaaaaaaaw
Comment by adiid — September 29, 2008 #