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The airport said rebuilding capacity quickly was "very challenging".

London's Heathrow Airport apologises for poor service

London's Heathrow Airport has apologised for unacceptable service in recent weeks, with long queues, delays for those with reduced mobility and baggage issues, as it struggled to cope with 40 years of passenger growth in four months.

Business • 11 Jul 22

BA said it would now reduce its April-October schedule by 11%, having said in May the cuts would amount to 10%

British Airways to cancel more flights

British Airways is cancelling more flights scheduled for the summer holiday season, it said today, at a time of widespread disruption at airports caused by staff shortages and a surge in travel demand.

Business • 05 Jul 22

Major airlines including BA and Virgin Atlantic have been locked in a bitter dispute with Britain's biggest airport for months

Heathrow Airport landing fees to be cut after protests

London's Heathrow Airport will be forced to lower the landing fees it charges airlines over the next four years after Britain's aviation regulator responded to pressure from airlines over the cost of flying at the hub.

Business • 28 Jun 22

Unions are yet to decide when strikes will take place, but warned they were likely to be during the peak summer holiday period

BA's Heathrow staff vote to strike over pay dispute

British Airways workers based at London's Heathrow AIrport have voted to strike in a dispute over pay.

Business • 23 Jun 22

Heathrow is now expecting passenger numbers to reach 65% of pre-pandemic levels this year

Heathrow Airport raises 2022 passenger forecast

Heathrow Airport has increased its 2022 passenger number forecast from 45.5 million to nearly 53 million.

Business • 10 May 22

Heathrow Airport said its losses during the coronavirus pandemic have now exceeded £4 billion

Heathrow Airport says it won't make a profit in 2022

Heathrow Airport has announced it will remain loss making in 2022 as "demand remains very volatile".

Business • 26 Apr 22

2.8 million passengers travelled through Heathrow airport last month - 15% below its forecast

Heathrow traffic still 50% down on pre-Covid levels

London's Heathrow Airport said passenger numbers in February remained nearly 50% down on pre-pandemic levels, with only 2.8 million passengers travelling through the UK's hub airport, 15% below its forecast.

Business • 11 Mar 22

Gatwick's south terminal has been shut for nearly two years due to the coronavirus pandemic

Gatwick airport to reopen south terminal in March

UK's second-largest airport Gatwick said today it would reopen its south terminal next month, as it expects demand to pick up this summer, with coronavirus travel curbs having eased.

Business • 11 Feb 22

At least 600,000 passengers cancelled travel plans from Heathrow in December as new travel restrictions came into force

Heathrow hit by Omicron cancellations in December

Britain's biggest airport Heathrow handled 19.4 million passengers in 2021, less than one quarter of pre-pandemic levels and lower than 2020, after Omicron sparked a run of cancellations in December.

Business • 11 Jan 22

Heathrow Airport said demand in November was down 60% on pre-pandemic levels

Business travellers cancelling over Omicron - Heathrow

London's Heathrow Airport said it was seeing high levels of business travellers cancelling over concerns they could be trapped overseas by travel restrictions triggered by the new Omicron variant of coronavirus.

Business • 10 Dec 21

Heathrow had requested the airport charges cap be set at between £32 to £43

UK regulator caps Heathrow charges plan, airlines angry

The UK aviation regulator said today that Britain's biggest airport Heathrow will not be permitted to raise passenger charges by as much as it had wanted.

Business • 19 Oct 21

Heathrow last year lost its crown as Europe's busiest hub to Paris

Walsh slams Heathrow plan for higher fees

Willie Walsh, head of global airlines industry body IATA, has called Britain's Heathrow Airport a "greedy monopoly hub" and said its plans to raise airport charges were "outrageous".

Business • 14 Oct 21

Heathrow said its passenger numbers were still 71% lower in August compared to the same month before Covid-19

Heathrow tells UK to change travel rules

Britain's biggest airport Heathrow said today that passenger numbers were still 71% lower in August compared to the same month before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Business • 13 Sep 21

Heathrow said that over 1.5 million travellers passed through the airport in July

Heathrow passenger numbers jump in July, still down 80%

London Heathrow Airport has said passenger numbers surged in July as the government eased travel restrictions, but warned that overall numbers were still down 80% on pre-pandemic levels as many barriers remain.

Business • 11 Aug 21

Heathrow said that fewer than four million people travelled through the airport in the first half of 2021

Heathrow posts cumulative pandemic losses of $4 billion

London's Heathrow Airport urged Britain to open up travel to vaccinated passengers after its recovery fell behind hubs elsewhere in Europe, pushing its cumulative pandemic losses to $4 billion.

Business • 26 Jul 21

Just 957,000 passengers passed through Heathrow Airport terminals in June compared with 7,246,157 passengers in June 2019

Heathrow passenger numbers 90% down on pre-Covid levels

London Heathrow passenger numbers remain almost 90% down on pre-pandemic levels and significantly lower than EU rival airports, new figures show.

Business • 12 Jul 21

Just 675,000 people travelled through Heathrow last month, compared with 6,769,000 in May 2019

Heathrow passenger numbers 90% below pre-Covid levels

Heathrow's passenger numbers are languishing at 90% below pre-pandemic levels, the UK's busiest airport said today.

Business • 11 Jun 21

Heathrow said it will be the first UK major airport to successfully incorporate sustainable aviation fuels

Heathrow Airport to use renewable jet fuel

London Heathrow Airport will use sustainable jet fuel for the first time as part of a test ahead of a Group of Seven (G7) rich nations summit in the UK next week.

Business • 03 Jun 21

The bosses of BA and Heathrow Airport have urged the UK government to go further in easing restrictions around travel

BA and Heathrow urge UK to ease travel restrictions

The bosses of British Airways and London's Heathrow Airport urged the UK government to go further in easing restrictions around travel, saying links to much of Europe and the US should be opened up.

Business • 17 May 21

Heathrow said a first quarter loss of £329m took total losses since the start of the pandemic to nearly £2.4 billion

Heathrow Airport's Covid losses balloon to £2.4 billion

Heathrow, Britain's biggest airport, said today a first quarter loss of £329m took total losses since the start of the pandemic to nearly £2.4 billion as travel continues to be hammered.

Business • 29 Apr 21

Heathrow Airport said its passenger numbers fell 83% in March

Heathrow passenger numbers down 83% in March

Heathrow Airport passenger numbers fell 83% in March compared to the same month last year, Britain's biggest airport said in a statement today, as the pandemic continued to hit travel.

Business • 12 Apr 21

Heathrow, the UK's biggest airport, last year lost its title as the busiest in Europe to Paris

Heathrow sinks to £2 billion loss during pandemic

Britain's Heathrow Airport plunged to a £2 billion annual loss after passenger numbers collapsed to levels last seen in the 1970s during the pandemic.

Business • 24 Feb 21

Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye said having pre-departure testing on top of quarantine should only be a temporary measure

Heathrow boss welcomes new travel rules

The boss of Britain's biggest airport Heathrow said today that new rules requiring travellers to England to have a pre-departure Covid-19 test should replace the country's quarantine requirement in the next few months as the pandemic eases.

Business • 08 Jan 21

Heathrow today said it now expected 37 million people to travel through the airport in 2021

Heathrow Airport loses European crown during pandemic

London's Heathrow is no longer Europe's busiest airport, ceding its long-held crown to Paris during the pandemic and blaming government inaction for its passenger numbers plunging even more than rivals.

Business • 28 Oct 20

Passengers will be asked to register online for the test before travelling to Heathrow.

London Heathrow unveils rapid pre-flight virus tests

London's Heathrow airport today began to roll out paid-for rapid coronavirus testing, with results in one hour, as it seeks to boost demand decimated by the deadly pandemic.

Business • 20 Oct 20