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Almost a year before the fifth terminal (T5) at Heathrow opens, overexcited customers are able to purchase tickets for the first day's flights online.

British Airways will have sole occupancy of the new terminal, which has cost £4.3 billion to build and been six years in the making.

Although it does not open until March 27th 2008, 75,000 tickets to that first day's 380 flights are already available on ba.com for customers eager to secure a place in the annals as early users of the historic fifth terminal.

Anyone keen to be 'able to say, 'I was there when it all began'', need only book themselves in online, BA commercial director Robert Boyle counselled.

The very first flight on that March day will be the BA302 to Paris Charles de Gaulle, while the first passengers to walk through the arrivals gates will be fresh off the BA026 from Hong Kong.

T5 will 'restore the prestige of the UK's national hub and set standards of passenger comfort and convenience which will surpass those of its European rivals at Paris Charles De Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol and Frankfurt', BA has claimed.

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