Heathrow Reports Strong Recovery over Jubilee holiday

5.3m passengers travelled through Heathrow in May, 79% of 2019 levels, in line with our revised forecast.

More passengers checking in online and despite May being the busiest month since March 2020, 90% of passengers were through security in less than 10 minutes.

Reopen Terminal 4 on 14 June and 30 airlines will move in ahead of the summer peak. 

Heathrow CEO, John Holland-Kaye said:

“I’m immensely proud of the way my team has worked with airlines and other partners to ensure passengers got away during the Jubilee half term.  We continue to make good progress with our plans to ramp up capacity and are working closely with airlines and the government to keep supply and demand in balance as we grow so that passengers can travel through Heathrow this summer with confidence. We now need a regulatory settlement from the CAA that protects service and resilience levels, incentivises investment and maintains affordable private financing. Failure to invest risks degrading passenger experience at a time when it has never been more important for operations to ramp up smoothly.”