American Express today announced plans to open the thirteenth location within its signature airport lounge network, The Centurion Lounge, at Heathrow. This will be American Express’ first Centurion Lounge in Europe, and second outside of the US. Opening in 2019, the new Centurion Lounge at Heat...

Emirates recently celebrated 10 years of A380 operations at Heathrow. Since its first flight to the London airport from Dubai on the 1st December 2008, the Emirates A380 has carried more than 12.3 million passengers on 14,581 flights, clocking up more than 80,195,000 km in total. Commenting on t...

Flybe and Virgin Atlantic are reportedly in talks about a sale or closer alliance a few weeks after cash-strapped Flybe put itself up for sale earlier in November. Last month, Flybe warned that its full-year losses would amount to £22 million due to falling consumer demand, a weaker pound and hi...

Cornwall Airport Newquay has announced it is delighted to announce that after many years of development, in just a few months’ time, passengers will now be able to fly directly between Cornwall and London Heathrow with Flybe. Launching services on 31 March 2019, the route will be flown using 78...

Japan Airlines has announced that it will be installing breathalyser systems in certain airports abroad after one the airline's pilots was arrested at London Heathrow Airport drunk. The airline pilot, Katsutoshi Jitsukawa was arrested last month after he was found to be nine times over the legal ...

Heathrow Express has marked the 20th anniversary of sustainable service with a 36-metre long poster campaign created using some of the tons of rubbish left on its trains every year, telling the company’s sustainability story over the past two decades. The posters, launched this week, run along ...

SafeCharge announced it has partnered with World Duty Free at London Heathrow Airport, enabling Chinese travelers to pay for their goods using WeChat Pay. According to VisitBritain, over 330,000 Chinese travelers visited the UK during last year alone, injecting over one billion pounds into the ec...

"The world is waiting for Heathrow," according to Emma Gilthorpe, Executive Director, Expansion at London Heathrow Airport commenting on UK parliamentary approval for development of a third runway at the airport. Now a date has been set for its opening. Speaking to Airport Operator magazine, as p...

In what it calls 'a world airport first', Heathrow has announced that the first electric-hybrid aircraft will not have to pay Heathrow’s landing charges for an entire year when it is put into regular service at the UK’s international hub. At the BusinessGreen Leaders’ Summit in London today...

Heathrow passengers are set for a biometric revolution as the airport announces plans for a full-scale roll out of new biometric services from the summer of 2019, according to a press release by the London airport. LHR stated: "The new technology will be a first for the UK’s only hub airport an...

UK Power Networks Services beat a Boeing 767 across the Atlantic by bike to help Team Heathrow raise more than £100,000 in the airport’s annual Race the Plane charity challenge. The team joined 27 other teams and cycled the distance of 3,456 miles faster than the United Airlines UA 883 flying ...

UK investigative data has demonstrated that earlier this year a drone was flown within ten feet of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner as it made its approach to London Heathrow's runway. The aircraft was approaching Heathrow airport at an altitude of 3,200 feet when the drone flew extremely close. The re...

As part of a continued commitment to put customers at the heart of its business, British Airways has recently announced a multi-million pounds investment in training for its staff at Heathrow - beginning with its customer service hosts at its flagship home, Heathrow’s Terminal 5. The investment...

Legal challenges to the proposed expansion of Heathrow's third runway have been greenlit for a full hearing. The hearing will potentially go ahead next year. Five legal challenges were posed against the expansion: from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan; Neil Spurrier; Heathrow Hub; Friends of the E...

Source: aol.com The border force at Heathrow Airport met its waiting time targets only once last month, according to data acquired by Virgin Atlantic, which labeled the findings 'frustrating' for passengers. The UK's Border Force was reported to have only met a waiting time target in 1 day out o...