Passengers inside the departures area of terminal five at Heathrow Airport
(Picture: PA Wire)Heathrow bosses expect the airport to handle almost 53 million passengers this year after an Easter boom in holidays forced them to upgrade their forecasts.
The west London hub said five million passengers went through its terminals in April as holidaymakers took the opportunity to fly abroad — many for the first time in two years — following the lifting of the final Covid travel restrictions by the Government in March.
