(Finance) – TheHeathrow AirportLondon’s main airport, recorded almost 8 million passengers in July (7.98 million to be precise, +4.2% compared to July 2023), with the UK hub maintaining its first place as Europe’s busiest airport in the first half of the year, ahead of Amsterdam Schiphol, Frankfurt, Madrid and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
Before July 2024, Heathrow had never exceeded 1.8 million of passengers in a weekThis has been achieved for three weeks in a row (July 8-28), as the airport continues to break its own records.
Heathrow has seen six of its busiest departure days ever in the week that schools closed for the summer holidays (from 22 July), with over 140,000 direct departing passengers and almost 140,000 bags leaving the airport every day.
Venice and Larnaca have proved popular destinations for those flying in for some summer sun, while Doha and Dublin they joined Dubai and JFK as the latest routes with one million passengers travelling to and from Heathrow this year. There were also large flows to Orlando and many other US destinations such as Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Dallas.
“In July, we broke passenger records almost every single day and are chasing our unprecedented goal of serving 8 million passengers in a single month,” commented the CEO from Heathrow, Thomas Woldbye āIām proud that while there were some potential challenges that could have tripped us up, our team remained focused on the prize of making every trip better and delivered a medal-winning start to our summer getaway.ā