West London Air Terminal

You are walking past the site of the former West London Air Terminal on Cromwell Road. In the nineteen sixties, this was a futuristic gateway where thousands of travelers checked in for flights to Heathrow Airport without ever stepping foot in an airport terminal. Passengers would hand over their luggage at these counters, receive their boarding passes, and then board dedicated buses that whisked them directly to the tarmac. It was an ambitious attempt to solve the chaos of early jet-age travel by moving the entire check-in process into the heart of London.