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Heathrow

July 2024

  • Thames Water vans are parked on a road as repair and maintenance work takes place, in London.

    Business live
    Thames Water credit rating downgraded to ‘junk’ status by Moody’s – as it happened

    Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as rating agency says water company will struggle to find new investment

May 2024

  • Cabin crew dress in red outfits and wearing face masks

    Hundreds of Virgin Atlantic cabin crew sue for unfair dismissal

    Tribunal in London will hear claims Richard Branson’s airline used Covid redundancies to target older staff

April 2024

  • Passengers look at the departures board at Heathrow airport in London

    Heathrow expects summer holiday season to be ‘busiest on record’

    Passengers numbers this year predicted to hit 82.4m but airport’s future uncertain, with proposed £6bn sale in doubt

February 2024

  • A British Airways plane taking off from Heathrow airport.

    Heathrow returns to profit with record passenger numbers forecast for 2024

    Airport announces pre-tax profit of £38m for 2023 and new boss says third runway remains ‘part of our strategy’

December 2023

  • Dancers Casey Nokomis Pereira and Alison Eager outside Terminal 5

    Observer business agenda
    Heathrow boss will need to be light on his feet as fresh investors eye returns

    The airport hopes for a bumper 2024 – but are its new owners happy about the fading prospects for a third runway?

November 2023

  • Heathrow airport

    Strong winds and staff shortages causing delays at Heathrow airport

    Passengers report flights being delayed or cancelled as airport imposes air traffic control restrictions

September 2023

  • Passengers look at check-in information at Heathrow airport

    Heathrow will have to cut passenger charges by about 20% in 2024

    Airport, which had hoped to raise fees, loses appeal to UK competition watchdog in provisional ruling

August 2023

  • Travellers wait near the British Airways check-in area at Heathrow Airport on 28 August, 2023.

    Tell us: how have you been affected by UK air traffic disruption?

    We would like to hear from people travelling about how they have been affected by disruption caused by an air traffic control technical failure

June 2023

  • Unite members during a strike at Heathrow in March.

    Heathrow security staff cancel first of planned summer weekend strikes

    Action on 24-25 June will not go ahead after improved pay offer from airport, Unite says
  • International arrivals at Heathrow airport

    Heathrow security staff to strike on almost every weekend this summer

    More than 2,000 workers at London hub will strike for 31 days from June to August in row over pay
  • Unionised Heathrow security guards strike outside the airport in March 2023 holding signs that read ‘Pay up, Heathrow’.

    Heathrow security guards expected to announce fresh strikes

    Unite says it will serve notice to airport of fresh round of strikes in long-running pay dispute

May 2023

  • British Airways tail fins at Heathrow airport

    BA flight chaos at Heathrow airport ahead of bank holiday weekend

    At least 50 British Airlines services cancelled on Thursday due to technical problems and passengers warned of further delays on Friday

April 2023

  • Passengers queue to go through security in departures at Terminal 5 of Heathrow airport in February 2023.

    Heathrow remains loss-making despite rise in passenger numbers

  • A white-painted church on top of a hill on the Greek island of Serifos, with a bay seen far below

    Britons brace for strikes, traffic jams and border delays as Easter exodus returns

March 2023

  • Passengers walk through Heathrow airport in London in 2022

    Heathrow told to cut passenger charges in move that could lower fares

    Decision by Civil Aviation Authority comes despite airport having argued for higher fees

February 2023

  • A plane lands on the southern runway at London Heathrow airport in 2021

    Heathrow has busiest start to year since before Covid lockdowns

    More than 5.4m passengers travelled through airport in January, double the 2.6m from 2022

December 2022

  • Hospital staff at work. The Royal College of Nursing is to meet Steve Barclay.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    RCN accuse government of ‘belligerence’ as talks to avert strike action fail; Wales strikes to go ahead – as it happened

    Royal College of Nursing says Steve Barclay refused to discuss pay at meeting on Monday; Welsh nurses to strike after last-minute talks fail

November 2022

  • Passengers queue inside the departures terminal of Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, on 27 June 2022.

    Heathrow ‘ready for Christmas rush’ after making plans to avoid disruption

  • Model of Fifa World Cup logo

    Hundreds of Heathrow staff to strike in run-up to Fifa World Cup

October 2022

  • A plane passes a sign as it comes into land at Heathrow airport in 2018

    Heathrow passengers may have to fly outside peak times ahead of Christmas

    Airport still has shortage of 25,000 staff and is keen to avoid disruption of summer
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