How old is heathrow airport

As the decade drew to a close, 27 million passengers were using Heathrow annually. Demand for air travel also created the need for another terminal, Terminal 4, which opened for business in Over 67 million passengers travel through the airport annually on services offered by 90 airlines travelling to over destinations in over 90 countries.

By the time Heathrow celebrated its 60th anniversary in it had handled around 1. The start of operations at Terminal 5 in March marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Heathrow. The first airline to move in was United Airlines.

Your session has timed out due to inactivity. Skip to Content Back to Main Menu. Welcome to Heathrow Enter your flight details to check which terminal you need. Welcome, Logout. Saved Flights. Your Saved Flights Remove all. In addition to all of this there has been a long-term cargo area on the South Perimeter. The stars of any airport, of course, are the aircraft. Today the skies and runways are dominated by the giants birds of Boeing and Airbus.

Best, fastest and most beautiful of all was the much-loved and much missed Concorde, lost to us forever at the turn of this century. Most of all, LHR was her home. Especially those, like me, who worked at LHR years ago and today still live under her flight path. This article originally appeared on London Historians. You can become a London Historians member here.

By three runways had been completed and work on another three — subsequently abandoned as unnecessary — was going on. A new, permanent building arose in the central area at the start of the s, replacing the tent. As traffic boomed Heathrow Airport found itself with an ever-increasing demand for passenger facilities. Next came the new Oceanic terminal handling long-haul carriers, a function it still performs as Terminal 3, followed by the opening of Terminal 1 in The take-off at Heathrow Airport of the first commercial Concorde flight, 21 January Passengers waiting at Heathrow Airport, 31 July Passengers wait near the departures board at Heathrow Airport, 4 January Members of the British pop group Duran Duran pose on an airplane ramp before departing for Australia from Heathrow Airport, 26 July A father supports his son on his shoulders as a four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at Heathrow Airport, 17 August Photo by In Pictures Ltd.