{"id":122439,"date":"2022-02-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=122439"},"modified":"2022-02-24T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T00:11:46","slug":"heathrow-records-lowest-annual-passenger-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2022\/02\/heathrow-records-lowest-annual-passenger-numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"London’s Heathrow records lowest annual passenger numbers since 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

London’s Heathrow airport, Britain’s busiest, saw its lowest number of passengers since 1972 last year and suffered wider losses as the coronavirus pandemic slashed demand for travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passenger numbers fell to 19.4 million in 2021. Heathrow also recorded a pretax loss of 1.79 billion pounds ($2.43 billion) for 2021, taking total loses during the pandemic to 3.8 billion pounds due to the drop in passengers and high fixed costs, Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye said Heathrow expected to meet its target of more than doubling passengers to 45.5 million this year, although demand would be “quite peaky” and focused on British school holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passenger numbers were currently 23% behind forecast, but he said there were signs of recovery, with the airport seeing some of its busiest days in two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Summer in particular we think will be quite busy,” he said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Heathrow was working with airlines to scale-up its operations and reopen Terminal 4 for the summer peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But while outbound tourism had been boosted by the removal of restrictions in Britain, Holland-Kaye said inbound tourism and business travel remained suppressed, including transatlantic routes, because of testing requirements in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heathrow is awaiting the aviation regulator’s final proposals on what it can charge passengers for the 2022-2027 period, after it criticised the airport’s plan to raise charges by nearly half. Airlines have also voiced their opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland-Kaye said if the regulator did not rectify “major mistakes” in its initial proposals, there could be a return to the “Heathrow hassle” of 15 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If we get it right, we can continue to have the seamless journeys that people have been used to, and the price for doing that is less than 2% on the ticket price,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Sandle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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