The Latest Breaking News from Heathrow

Gatwick Airport hires 400 more staff to deal with travel chaos

"With passenger numbers rapidly returning to 2019 levels, we expect to be busy, particularly at peak times such as weekends and the forthcoming school summer holidays."

Wales Online · Jul 20, 2022

Hugh Grant slams Priti Patel over ‘inhumane’ Heathrow passport control

The actor launched a broadside against the Home Secretary over the length of queues at border control

Evening Standard · Jul 20, 2022

Hugh Grant slams Priti Patel as he brands Heathrow airport 'a disgrace and inhumane'

Never one to shy away from sharing his political views, Hugh Grant branded Priti Patel 'the worst Home Secretary in British history' on Tuesday, amid travel chaos at Heathrow Airport. The actor also apologised to those arriving in the U.K, as he shared a snap of the long queues for…

Daily Mirror · Jul 20, 2022

Heathrow faces new three-day strikes which could see hundreds of flights delayed

Refuelling firm AFS has announced three-days of industrial action which begins on Thursday at Britain's busiest airport Heathrow having rejected a pay offer from the airport

Daily Mirror · Jul 19, 2022

Emirates backtracks and agrees to Heathrow flight cap until mid-August

Emirates Airlines had come out swinging follow the Heathrow Airport passenger cap announcement, accusing the travel hub of having a "blatant disregard" for its customers

Daily Mirror · Jul 19, 2022

UK's Heathrow faces strike this week as refuellers reject revised pay offer - Unite

A strike by refuellers at Britain's busiest airport Heathrow is set to go ahead later this week and cause delays for hundreds of flights after workers rejected a revised pay offer, labour union Unite said on Tuesday.

Reuters · Jul 19, 2022

Emirates Airline Rejects Heathrow Airport’s Request to Cut Down Flights

The Heathrow Airport (LHR) decision to cut capacity and request for airlines to stop selling tickets for summer flights has angered the Emirates airline company, which described the airport demands as "unreasonable and unacceptable". Emirates said it had rejected the London hub's demands to cut capacity despite being threatened with…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 16, 2022

Heathrow 'tells airlines to kick passengers off flights' to avoid travel chaos

Bosses at Heathrow want no more than 100,000 departing daily passengers to go through the airport in a bid to alleviate growing problems within its terminals and flight cancellations

Daily Mirror · Jul 15, 2022

Heathrow restrictions hit Virgin’s India-London flight, more could follow

Virgin Atlantic cancelled its Delhi-London flight on Thursday and other carriers could also pull out India-London flights

The Hindu · Jul 15, 2022

UK government issues ultimatum to Heathrow CEO over flight disruption

John Holland-Kaye has until midday on Friday to assure ministers the airport has sufficient security workers and to assist disabled passengers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2022