{"id":334,"date":"2010-03-28T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-03-31T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:24:31","slug":"chanel-on-the-picket-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Chanel on the picket line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News took me back to Heathrow yesterday.
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Last week I got a great picture used on the front of the FT that I shot last year amidst all the hoo-hah about the T5 expansion. But file pictures don\u2019t last forever and when my picture editor at The Independent<\/a> said \u201cyou might have to sharpen your elbows for Heathrow on Saturday\u201d, I knew that meant a long trudge around Hatton Cross (Mecca for news photographers and plane spotters alike).
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\nI started off with a trip to the terminal for a sneaky pic of the departures lounge, technically trespassing, but that makes it all the more exciting… If it lasts more than 3 frames that is, at which point I was stopped by security. I played the \u201csorry, I didn\u2019t know\u201d card and left feeling like a naughty schoolboy.<\/p>\n

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Next stop the picket, where I was welcomed by an army of cheery middle class cabin crew who directed me in stereotypical style to Demo HQ (a bar). A 1970\u2019s miners strike it was not, with soot exchanged for duty free Chanel the picket seemed to develop a party atmosphere as the day dragged on. According to BA, 60% of staff turned up for work, obviously worried about losing their travel benefit. On the whole, I reckon the remainder had a nice day out opting to bring their kids for a ride on the Unite open top minibus, bless. Read the story on The Independent on Sunday website, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nTwo hours on and here\u2019s the result, Rover was already standing on the Willie Walsh cut out\u2026 honest, guv.
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