29 July was the busiest day in Heathrow’s history, as the airport welcomed nearly 262,000 passengers in 24 hours. Overall, July reached unprecedented peaks, with over a quarter of a million passengers travelling through the airport on 19 different days in the month
- Over 7.8 million passengers travelled through the UK’s only hub airport on the 21 st consecutive record month, with figures up by 3.7%
- The airport’s already popular North American routes saw significant growth of 8.1%, a total of 1.8 million passengers driven by larger, fuller aircraft. Figures reiterate the need to extend the use of self-service e-gates to nations such as the United States and Canada
- Passenger numbers for Asia-Pacific climbed by 4.2% following new services from Hainan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines and Beijing Capital Airlines, connecting the UK to Changsha and Xi’an and Qingdao. In the past two years Heathrow has welcomed 9 new routes to Chinese destinations
- 140,000 metric tonnes of cargo travelled through Heathrow in July, with the emerging markets – China, Turkey and Brazil – seeing the fastest cargo growth across the month
- In July, Heathrow completed 65 visits to all longlisted sites bidding to help deliver the expanded airport and completed the 1 st stage of its search for innovation partners. Receiving over 100 Expressions of Interest, this initiative sets out to encourage fresh thinking around how Heathrow delivers the expanded airport
- Heathrow announced the arrival of two new retail spaces – a Louis Vuitton pop-up store in Terminal 4 and a Spuntino in Terminal 3, both are set to open in Winter 2018
Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye said:
“It’s brilliant to see even more international visitors coming to the UK and supercharging the country’s economy this summer. However, too often their first impression of the UK is a long queue for immigration. The Home Office should let visitors from low risk countries, such as the US, use the same e-gates as EU visitors to give them a warm welcome to Britain.”
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