London Heathrow Airport had 16.9 million passengers in Q1 of 2023 , greater than Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

Delivering wonderful and constant passenger service – Passengers additionally rated Heathrow’s service forward of our foremost EU hub rivals, with a robust efficiency through the half time period and Easter holidays.

Strong contingency plans saved the airport operating easily all through industrial motion over the Easter peak. Passengers can anticipate to journey as typical through the Coronation and half-term peaks, no matter additional pointless strike motion by Unite.

Heathrow has been working with companions on additional enhancements to service, comparable to Border Pressure’s profitable trial of extending eGates to 10+ year-olds over Easter. 

Heathrow stays loss-making, and no dividends are within the pipeline for 2023.

Heathrow has not but returned to revenue, with Adjusted losses of £139 million in Q1 because of the income allowance within the CAA’s H7 settlement being set too low.

In an announcement, the Airport defined:

We now have appealed the H7 settlement to the CMA.

Supporting the UK’s competitiveness.

We now have labored to higher join the entire UK to international markets, with Loganair making the most of our home prices low cost to open up new routes to Northern Eire and Scotland and opening up connections to 10 Chinese language cities as borders reopen.

Frequencies to Beijing and Shanghai will enhance to twice day by day earlier than the summer time. We urge Ministers to make the UK extra aggressive for abroad guests versus the EU by eradicating the ‘vacationer tax’ of VAT on purchasing which can drive extra spending in retailers, eating places, and sights throughout Britain.

Continued regular progress in direction of sustainability targets – We had been happy to be the primary airport to attain science-based validation from the SBTi for our 2030 carbon discount targets.

As the worldwide aviation sector begins to decarbonize, we urge the federal government to maneuver sooner to supply Sustainable Aviation Gas onshore, rising vitality safety and creating expert inexperienced jobs in leveling-up areas.