Almost 15 million travellers will take-off from UK airports this month - despite the daily cap on passengers using the country's biggest hub. There are scheduled to be 83,546 flight departures from all UK airports - equating to 14.6 million aircraft seats - even though numbers at Heathrow have been cut by 4,000 passengers a day.
These restrictions are expected to remain in place until the end of October. Even so, August 2022 is scheduled to be the busiest month for UK departures since October 2019 - showing that despite ticket sales and passengers restrictions - the recovery is underway, aviation analysts Cirium confirmed.
This is underlined by data showing UK departures up by 81 per cent this month compared to the corresponding period in 2021 and up 116 per cent against August 2020.
