London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is the world's busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic. It is the world's third busiest airport in total passenger traffic. It is also the largest and busiest airport in the United Kingdom. It is also the busiest in the European Union in terms of passenger traffic and the second busiest in terms of traffic movements. Heathrow is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports. BAA is itself owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group. Heathrow is the primary hub of British Airways, BMI and Virgin Atlantic.
Located 12 NM (22 km; 14 mi) west of Central London, England, Heathrow originally was designed to have six runways in three pairs spaced approximately 120 degrees apart but now has just two parallel main runways running east-west and five terminals. The site covers 12.14 square kilometres (4.69 sq mi). Terminal 5 was officially opened by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II on 14 March 2008 and opened to passengers on 27 March 2008. Construction of Heathrow East, to replace Terminal 2 and The Queen's Building, began in 2009, and is expected to be completed by early 2014.Terminals 3 and 4 will also be refurbished during this period. In November 2007 a consultation process began for the building of a new third runway and was controversially approved on 15 January 2009 by UK Government ministers.
Heathrow Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P527) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
LOCATION
Heathrow is located 12 NM (22 km; 14 mi) west of central London, England, near the southern end of the London Borough of Hillingdon. The airport stands on a parcel of land that was designated part of the London Metropolitan Green Belt. To the north, the airport is surrounded by the built-up areas of Harlington, Harmondsworth, Longford and Cranford.
Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % Change |
---|---|---|---|
1 | John F. Kennedy International Airport | 2,802,870 | ▼1 |
2 | Dublin Airport | 1,812,028 | ▼8 |
3 | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | 1,709,135 | ▼5 |
4 | Dubai International Airport | 1,652,441 | ▲5 |
5 | Hong Kong International Airport | 1,493,864 | ▲3 |
6 | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport | 1,489,167 | ▼17 |
7 | Los Angeles International Airport | 1,461,079 | ▲4 |
8 | O'Hare International Airport | 1,460,816 | ▼9 |
9 | Frankfurt Airport | 1,271,421 | ▼12 |
10 | Madrid Barajas Airport | 1,152,504 | ▼2 |
11 | Singapore Changi Airport | 1,066,606 | ▼1 |
12 | Washington Dulles International Airport | 1,041,176 | ▼1 |
13 | Toronto Pearson International Airport | 992,579 | ▼3 |
14 | San Francisco International Airport | 985,575 | ▼5 |
15 | Munich Airport | 983,287 | ▼8 |
16 | Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport | 955,302 | ▼3 |
17 | OR Tambo International Airport | 944,731 | ▼6 |
18 | Copenhagen Airport | 939,950 | ▲4 |
19 | Stockholm-Arlanda Airport | 893,181 | ▼1 |
20 | Newark Liberty International Airport | 882,931 | ▲24 |
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