Another 6 million people travelled through Heathrow Airport last month, just barely below pre-pandemic levels, while Stansted broke its January passenger record, with little sign that fears about flight safety or geopolitical events were holding back travel.
The number of passengers at Heathrow was only about 100,000 short of the total recorded in January 2020, before the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and was up 9.4% from 2023.
