Heathrow Airport

Tianjin Airlines (GS/GCR) will start a twice-weekly service to Xi’An (XIY/ZLXY) from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) for Summer 2018. The route, which begins on the 7th May replaces the plans Tianjin Airlines had to operate from London Gatwick (LHR/EGKK). Tianjin Airlines will fly the route with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft and it will [read more]

Air Astana has announced it will increase its London to Astana service to a daily service from June. The flight, which connects London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to the Kazakhstan capital Astana (TSE/UACC), currently operates 5 times per week but as of 1st June 2018 it will have 2 additional weekly rotations making [read more]

Qatar Airways has announced that it’s first Airbus A350-1000 route will be the daily  QR15 Doha (DOH/OTHH) to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) service. Starting from the 24th February, the QR15 service will be operated by the Rolls-Royce XWB-97-powered twinjet, the first of its type in service. The A350-1000 was finally handed over to [read more]

One man has died in what has been described as a “serious accident” shortly after 6 am this morning at Heathrow Airport. The Emergency services rushed to the incident which involved a Heathrow Airport operations vehicle and a British Airways Kangoo van. Two members of staff were injured in the [read more]

International Airlines Group (IAG) thinks that companies should be allowed to build different terminals at Heathrow in a bid to provide better facilities. Currently, Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) has five terminals, all of which are operated by airport owners Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd. Under proposals set out by IAG in response [read more]

London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) has launched a 10-week expansion consultation in order to get feedback about the three options that have been shortlisted. The new plans set out potential locations to expand terminal infrastructure to the east of Terminal 2, the west of Terminal 5, or a new satellite terminal [read more]

Russian airline Aeroflot has announced it is consolidating it’s flights to London to a single airport. The airline is cancelling its Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO/UUEE) to London Gatwick service (LGW/EGKK) with the last flight on the 25th March. The same day sees the Moscow Sheremetyevo to London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) service increase with [read more]

Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, has announced it is increasing the discount for a UK domestic passenger by 50%. The discount was introduced to make it cheaper for domestic passengers to use Londons Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) and encourage domestic flights. It counters some of the harmful effects of the Governments [read more]