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Heathrow Airport Holdings is a company that operates and manages Heathrow Airport based in London, England. It was formed by the privatisation of the British Airports Authority as BAA plc [ 2 ] as part of Margaret Thatcher 's privatisation of government-owned assets, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), [7] and now known as London Heathrow, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Emirates, owned by the government of Dubai, said Heathrow had given the airline 36 hours from Wednesday to reduce capacity on its six daily flights, which are operated with the Airbus A380 superjumbo.
London Heathrow, which handles over 79 million international passengers annually, is the largest airport in the UK. London serves as the largest aviation hub in the world by passenger traffic, with six international airports , handling over 168 million passengers in 2023, [ 1 ] more than any other city ( List of busiest city airport systems by ...
Thousands of passengers travelling to or from Heathrow Airport have had flights cancelled or diverted, or are facing long flight delays after staff absences and high winds led to air traffic ...
Heathrow Airport is dominated by British Airways, which owns 50% of the slots available at the airport as of 2019, [85] growing from 40% in 2004. [86] The majority of BA services operate from Terminal 5, with the exception of some flights at Terminal 3 owing to insufficient capacity at Terminal 5. At London City Airport, the company owns 52% of ...
Sources at Heathrow say contingency planning is taking place. British Airways, which operates more than half the flights from Heathrow, has its own fuelling service and is unaffected.