Heathrow airportâs chief executive says plans for a third runway are being ârevivedâ â while in the short term, bigger planes will extract more capacity from the worldâs most overstretched pair of runways. Thomas Woldbye was speaking to The Independent after announcing record-breaking passenger numbers for Heathrow â which is by far the UKâs busiest airport.
In the six months between January and June, 39.8 million passengers travelled through Heathrow â one million more than during the first half of 2019, before the pandemic.
Heathrow is the busiest two-runway airport in the world, with a cap of 1,315 movements per day. Demand is so strong that, in 2019, 99.15 per cent of that capacity was used. Successive governments have given the green light to a third runway at Heathrow, though plans for expansion continue to be subject to legal challenges. But the airportâs chief executive believes such obstacles will be overcome.
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