It was Luton airport, actually. I know that you see us as a remote outpost, etc., but we do have more than one airport, you know...

The sheer denial of the adverse effects on global heating of air conditioning in this thread is staggering. The US and Australia were among the very worst when it came to poo-pooing the effects of carbon dioxide emissions. All that has now changed, of course, so it now comes down to excuses about how US/Oz lives are threatened, etc. (aka made uncomfortable). You need to seriously look up the vast increase in emissions that air conditioning causes, and to remember that the effects of those emissions are global. Actually, India and China's uptake of air conditioning is burgeoning, and they will say, with justification, if the US and Australia can do it, why shouldn't we? You guys in Oz and the US may talk about your aircon saving lives in your own neighbourhoods, etc., but you might just be forgetting that your aircon is a major contributor to the the future misery of hundreds of millions of people in countries far less well-equipped than your own to deal with the global warming that your convenient aircon is contributing to big time... Just sayin'...