The Latest Breaking News from ”Heathrow

Some 83.9 million passengers travelled through its terminals last year.

We have long since got used to our corporate crown jewels being raided by foreign buyers: Roll-Royce Motors, Land Rover, Harrods, Heathrow, even Weetabix and Polos are all in the stewardship of overseas owners. Vital public services such as Thames Water are also not excluded from the list.

Heathrow is on course for its busiest ever year as it upgraded its forecast number of passengers for 2024 to a record 83.8 million

The strong numbers make it more likely that Heathrow bosses will revive mothballed plans for a third runway

But Heathrow holds on to its status as Europe’s busiest airport after record July

UK’s biggest airport served almost 40m passengers in first half of 2024, straining its system ‘to the maximum’

Fancy.

An all time record 268,000 passengers passed though the west London airport on 30 June.

THE economy might be steady at best, but airports are booming as people look to get out of the UK, at least on holiday.