Heathrow airport handled 83.9 million passengers in 2024 and is operating very close to its annual limit of 480,000 take-offs and landings. At peak times there is a landing and a take-off every 80 ...

She added that “by backing a third runway at Heathrow we can make Britain the world’s best-connected place to do business.” Flights from the airport are currently capped at 480,000 per year ...

Nestled in the Middlesex countryside with its quaint high street and charming rows of semi-detached homes, Harmondsworth resembles countless other sleepy English villages. Yet for nearly two decades, ...

Considering that Heathrow's runways are currently operating at full capacity, a third runway would also spread the load and hopefully improve efficiency, delay and congestion concerns at the airport.

Heathrow's Expansion Has Long Faced Delays and Criticism. The third runway saga has been going on for years. There is currently no planning application for the construction of a runway and around ...

Heathrow airport’s chief executive says plans for a third runway are being “revived” – while in the short term, bigger planes will extract more capacity from the world’s most ...

Heathrow Airport’s search for a successor to long-serving chair Paul Deighton has taken off, it was reported on Tuesday.

Key transatlantic routes face the impact of US economic uncertainty, Heathrow cautioned in an investor report published today ...

Heathrow has warned that economic uncertainty unleashed by Donald Trump’s trade war has sparked a slowdown in travel from the United States. In an update to investors, Europe’s busiest airport said it ...

More than 7m passengers travelled through Heathrow in May, the UK airport said on Wednesday, boosted by a bumper bank holiday ...

Heathrow airport in London has called for "an honest conversation" about expansion after another record month for passenger numbers.

London Heathrow, the busiest airport in Britain, has announced plans for adding a third runway and substantial expansion of existing terminals. Heathrow’s chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, said ...