{"id":5464,"date":"2022-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bpddev2.uk\/clients2023\/metro\/heathrow-is-europes-busiest-airport-again\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:58:41","slug":"heathrow-is-europes-busiest-airport-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bpddev2.uk\/clients2023\/metro\/news\/heathrow-is-europes-busiest-airport-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow is Europe\u2019s busiest airport again<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One year after COVID travel restrictions demoted London\u2019s Heathrow airport to Europe’s 10th busiest airport, the west London hub has grown more in the past 12 months than any airport in Europe and regained its crown as Europe’s busiest airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heathrow welcomed 5.8 million passengers between July and September, with airlines and their ground handlers seeing 18 million passengers successfully away over summer, more than Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, but despite the rebound, passengers numbers were still 15% below pre-pandemic levels. Some of this down to the restrictions in passengers being allowed to transit the airport by authorities \u2013 but this will change in the near future it is anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Heathrow was the UK\u2019s most valuable port, seeing \u00a3153bn in non-EU imports and exports passing through the hub, handling 75% of all UK air cargo and more cargo by value than all other UK airports combined and serving 354 destinations in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam cargo volumes have recovered from the pandemic quicker than Heathrow, due to less reliance on the belly-hold cargo capacity that is dependent on passenger flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cargo tonnage recovery to pre-pandemic levels:<\/b>
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