Following a very long delay, British Airways-UK' flag carrier-will shift most of its remaining flight flying out of London Heathrow airport's older terminals to London Heathrow's new terminal, Terminal 5, as of 5th June, 2008.

Owing to the massive delays, abandoned flights and lost baggage concerns that affected London Heathrow's Terminal 5 soon after it opened for the public, the airport decided to stop the shifting of a number of long-haul flights to the new terminal.

As such, travellers coming from or leaving for North America continued to make use of the airport's older terminal T4.

British Airways, however, has said that it is set to shift another 8 long-haul flights including flights to New York City's JFK Airport, as well as flights to Cairo, Phoenix, Bangalore, Beijing, Lagos and Cape Town over to the airport's new terminal, T5, as of 5th June.

In terms of shifting, BA's New York route represents the biggest challenge, as the carrier operates 8 of these on a daily basis and together this route involves about twenty-five per cent of all of the airline's Terminal 4 traffic.

British Airways' CEO, Willie Walsh, indicated that instead of shifting all of its remaining operations at once, the company will move slowly, so as to avoid the sort of chaos that described London Heathrow in late March.

Travellers are well advised to reconfirm information about departure of their flights, if they made advance bookings with BA.