A closer look
While you are upstairs paying twenty pounds for a mediocre sandwich, your luggage is experiencing a far more efficient transportation system. Hidden beneath Heathrow Terminal 5 is a massive automated baggage tunnel network spanning 30 kilometers. Thousands of little robotic carts zip around in the dark at 20 miles per hour, independently navigating your underwear safely to your connecting flight. It’s a sprawling subterranean utopia that functions significantly better than the actual human passenger terminals.
