2015-10-13
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The UK is in a global race for trade, jobs and economic growth. The international economy is changing with the rise of emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China. UK businesses trade 20 times more with emerging markets that have daily flights than those with less frequent or no direct service.
There are 8 major airports in Britain – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted Southampton,
Prestwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. But Heathrow is slipping out of the Premier League of Europe’s international hub airports.
Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport. A hub airport is uniquely important to establishing flights to growth destinations. It is an airport where local passengers combine with transfer passengers to allow airlines to fly to more destinations more frequently than could be supported by local demand alone. Transfer passengers allow the UK to connect to countries where it couldn’t sustain a direct daily flight itself. Many routes would not exist without transfer passengers. Passengers can fly to 75 destinations from Heathrow that aren’t served by any other UK airport.
Heathrow is 24 km west of London center. There are 125 parking stands. There’re 3 terminals. Terminal I and Terminal II are for short haul routes, Terminal III is for long haul routes. A new 4-th terminal is planned, it can handle 2000 passengers an hour and its capacity is 8 mil passengers a year. It can receive the biggest aircraft. There are 22 stands. Heathrow services about 27 mil passengers a year. 45000 people work at Heathrow, in its 260 offices. There’re 74 airlines offices with cargo agents, salesmen, charwomen, typists, mechanics, medical personnel, policemen, Customs officers, Passport Control officers, etc.
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Active Vocabulary to Text B
| beacon | - маяк |
| capacity | - вместимость |
| hub airport | - узловой аэропорт |
| haul routes | - транспортный маршруту |
| settlement | - небольшой посёлок |
| to inaugurate | - вводить в эксплуатацию |
| to assemble | - собирать, монтировать |
| to sustain | - поддерживать |
| emerging | - развивающийся |
| transfer | - транзитный |
Questions to Text B
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1. What is there at tht airport?
2. Is it difficult to get to the airport?
3. Has the capacity of Sheremetyevo Airport increased nowadays?
4. What is the centre of international air traffic of Russia?
5. What does the terminal of Sheremetyevo Airport have?
6. What are the main airports in Britain?
7. Is Heathrow the UK’s only hub airport?
8. Where is it situated?
9. How many terminals are there?
10. How many passengers can the terminals handle every hour?
Aviation English
Test Paper (V-I)
