London’s Heathrow Airport sees 22% surge in passenger numbers

Britain’s busiest airport, Heathrow, has said 7.7 million passengers travelled through the airport in July, demonstrating the resurgence in foreign travel.

That is up 22% on the total of 6.3 million during the same month last year and is just 1% below the figure of 7.8 million recorded in July 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.

The year-on-year surge in passenger numbers last month was driven by fights to and from Asia (up 129%) and North ...