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London Heathrow Airport

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London Heathrow airport is the main hub airport for England. It is located 15 miles south west from Central London. The airport is owned and operated by BAA. It is used as the primary hub for British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

There are currently 4 terminals (Terminals 1-4) soon to be joined by Terminal 5 and Heathrow East which will replace Terminals 1 and 2. The airport has 2 runways, 27L/09R (Southern runway) and 27R/09L (Northern runway).

History

Terminals and airlines

Terminal 1

  • Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin, Shannon)
  • Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
  • bmi (Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Belfast-City, Brussels, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Hanover, Inverness, Jeddah, Leeds-Bradford, Lyon, Manchester, Moscow-Domodedovo, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Riyadh, Venice)
    • bmi operated by BMED (Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Alexandria, Almaty, Amman, Ankara, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Dakar, Damascus, Ekaterinburg, Freetown, Khartoum, Tbilisi, Tehran, Yerevan) [begin October 28, 2007]
  • British Airways (Aberdeen, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow-International, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Johannesburg, Kiev-Boryspil, Larnaca, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, San Francisco, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tripoli, Tokyo-Narita, Warsaw, Vancouver)
  • Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos)
  • El Al (Ovda [seasonal], Tel Aviv)
  • Finnair (Helsinki)
  • Icelandair (Reykjavik)
  • LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
  • South African Airways (Cape Town, Johannesburg)
  • Sun D'Or (Tel Aviv)
  • Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)

Terminal 2

Terminal 3

Terminal 4

  • Air Malta (Luqa)
  • British Airways (Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Amsterdam, Bahrain, Baltimore/Washington, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basel/Mulhouse, Beijing, Belgrade, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth [begins March 30, 2008], Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Entebbe, Geneva, Grand Cayman, Harare, Houston-Intercontinental [non-stop service begins March 30, 2008], Islamabad, Kolkata, Kuwait, Lagos, Luanda, Lusaka, Lyon, Mexico City, Montréal, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Nassau, New York-JFK, Newark, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Port Louis, Providenciales, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Toronto-Pearson, Vienna, Washington-Dulles, Zürich)
  • Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental) [begins March 30, 2008/pending slot availability [1]
  • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK) [begins March 30, 2008]
  • Iberia (Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia)
  • Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
  • KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
  • Northwest Airlines [pending slot availability [2]
  • Qantas (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney)
  • Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo, Male)
  • TAM Linhas Aéreas (São Paulo-Guarulhos)

From March 2007

  • Terminal 1 - Star Alliance (Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines, bmi, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss International Air Lines, TAP Portugal, Thai Airways International, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines)
  • Terminal 3 - Oneworld Alliance, SAS Norge, and Virgin Atlantic Airways (American Airlines, British Airways [Services to Spain, Nice, Lisbon, Helsinki and Australia until the second pier of Terminal 5 is finished[1]], Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia Airlines, Japan Airlines, Qantas, Royal Jordanian, SAS Norge, Virgin Atlantic Airways)
  • Terminal 4 - Skyteam and non-aligned airlines[2] (Aeroflot, Aer Lingus, Air Algerie, Air Astana, Air France, Air India, Air Malta, Air Mauritius, Air Sahara, Air Seychelles, Air Transat, Alitalia, Avianca, Bellview Airlines, Biman Bangladesh, China Eastern Airlines, Clickair, Continental Airlines [pending slot availability], Cyprus Airways, Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Egyptair, El Al, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Gulf Air, Icelandair, Iran Air, Jat Airways, Jet Airways, Kenya Airways, Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları (Cyprus Turkish Airlines), KLM, Korean Air, Kuwait Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Libyan Airways, Luxair, Middle East Airlines, Northwest Airlines [pending slot availability], Olympic Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Rossiya Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, SriLankan Airlines, Sudan Airways, Syrian Arab Airlines, TAM Linhas Aéreas, Tarom Airlines, Transaero, Tunisair, Turkmenistan Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Yemenia)
  • Terminal 5 - British Airways

Future

Statistics

  1. oneworld Press Release, 13 March 2006
  2. Skyteam Press Release, 9 June 2006