Overview
- Heathrow projects monthly traffic above last December’s 7.08 million and expects a new Christmas Day high beyond 160,000 travellers.
- The airport says a record number of colleagues will assist passengers, with one million litres of de-icing product stocked to keep operations moving.
- November set a new Heathrow record at 6.63 million passengers, a 2.1% rise year on year.
- The largest increases in flights were to the Middle East, up 15.4%, and to Asia/Pacific, up 6.5%.
- The CAA expects UK airports to see their busiest Christmas period on record, with December traffic forecast to top last year’s 22 million and popular routes led by Palma de Mallorca, Dublin, Amsterdam and Alicante.