page_title: History of Heathrow Airport
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: History of Heathrow Airport / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: London Heathrow British Airways 747-400
context_page_description: In its early years what is now Heathrow Airport was the Great West Aerodrome, sometimes known as Heathrow Aerodrome.
context_section_description: March 1994: 1994 Heathrow mortar attacks
  7 February 1996: Concorde G-BOAD left Heathrow and crossed the Atlantic in a new record time, to New York in 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
  May 1997: The planning stage of the Terminal 5 Public Planning Inquiry ended at a total cost of £80m. Testimony was heard from 700 witnesses and 100,000 pages of transcripts were recorded. The consultation process took 524 days; eight years elapsed from the first application to final government approval – the longest ever planning process in UK history.
  23 June 1998: The Heathrow Express began providing a railway service from Paddington station in London. A special rail line was constructed between Heathrow and the Great Western Main Line for this service.
caption: British Airways Boeing 747-400s in the 1990s
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