Airport Check-in

0 Comments | USA TODAY, December, 2007 | by Roger Yu

LONDON

Welcome to the faux Terminal 6

Flanked by the Spice Girls, Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson recently touted the opening of his carrier's Terminal 6 at London Heathrow.

The only problem is that the building in question is not new, and the airport has only four terminals, plus a fifth under construction.

So it was a bit of a fib, but it was the flamboyant billionaire's way of highlighting some renovations in Virgin Atlantic's Terminal 3 while needling British Airways over its much-hyped Terminal 5, which is set to open in March.

Virgin Atlantic completed Terminal 3 renovations on Dec. 13. The carrier cleared out an old check-in hall for economy classes and remodeled it to accommodate the increase in passengers using...