Heathrow connectivity collapses by two-thirds due to pandemic December 18, 2020 Some six thousand air routes across Europe are yet to be restored nine months into the Covid-19 crisis, a new report reveals, with Heathrow’s connectivity collapsing by more than two-thirds. The report, from Airports Council International, measures connectivity through a set of direct, indirect and hub indexes. European and UK airports have been the hardest [...]
Supreme Court gives Heathrow third runway the green light December 16, 2020 The Supreme Court has this morning ruled that Heathrow’s controversial third runway expansion plans can go ahead. The verdict means that the UK’s highest court has overturned the Court of Appeal’s February decision to block the £14bn project on environmental grounds. However, in a year in which air travel has plummeted to historic lows due [...]
Heathrow Terminal 4 to remain closed until end of 2021 December 11, 2020 Heathrow airport has decided to shut Terminal 4 until the end of 2021 as travel restrictions reduce passenger numbers.
Heathrow workers to strike next week November 27, 2020 Workers at Heathrow Airport are planning to strike on Tuesday over proposed pay cuts, the airport said today. Unite the union is also preparing for further industrial action on 14, 17, and 18 December. Heathrow said that there are currently no pre-planned flight schedule amendments for any of the dates. As the UK will still [...]
Two charged with money laundering after £1.2m Heathrow cash bust November 13, 2020 Two Czech nationals have been charged with money laundering after being busted at Heathrow airport with more than £1.2m stuffed in suitcases, UK Border Force announced today. Zdenek Kamaryt, 37, and Michala Repperova, 26, were questioned by Border Force officials as they tried to board a flight to Dubai on Sunday morning. Officers found £1.2m [...]
Heathrow passenger numbers fall for eighth straight month November 11, 2020 Passenger numbers at Heathrow Airport fell for the eight month in a row in October as the government’s travel quarantine regime continued to hammer aviation. The number of people passing through the UK’s largest airport fell 82.4 per cent last month to just 1.2m passengers. The figures came with warnings that November would see an [...]
What’s in store for the airline industry this winter? October 30, 2020 Although every industry has suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic, few have been as hard hit as the world’s airlines. At the beginning of the year, the idea of a world without global air travel was for most people a relic of a long-forgotten past, but seven months of extreme turbulence have flipped that notion [...]
Paris overtakes Heathrow as Europe’s busiest airport October 28, 2020 Paris has overtaken Heathrow as Europe’s busiest airport following a sharp drop in passenger numbers at the London travel hub. Heathrow’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye called on the government to introduce pre-departure coronavirus tests and to create an airbridge with the US as the number of travellers using the airport continued to fall. He warned [...]
Aviation watchdog slams Heathrow’s legal threats over £1.7bn airport charge hike October 26, 2020 The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has hit back at Heathrow Airport over threats that it will take the regulator to court unless it budges on its decision to reject Heathrow’s attempt to increase airport charges by £1.7bn. Earlier this month, the CAA turned down the request from the UK’s largest airport, which wanted to hike [...]
Heathrow owners told to boost funding or risk nationalisation October 25, 2020 The airline watchdog has warned the owners of Heathrow that the airport may be nationalised if they do not provide fresh funding to help it weather the pandemic. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said that without emergency cash from Heathrow’s shareholders, including the sovereign wealth funds of Singapore and Qatar, the airport may face [...]