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Heathrow Airport Guide

Welcome to the Heathrow Airport Guide - the definitive resource to help you find everything you need when travelling to, from and around the world's busiest international airport.

Around 90 airlines fly from Heathrow to over 180 locations worldwide, carrying nearly 68 million passengers and 1.3 million tonnes of cargo each year. Heathrow has five terminals, two main runways, and a cross wind runway.

The airport provides a wide range of facilities including those for business, children and disabled travellers. It also offers a full range of 1st class airport services.

Public transport to and from Heathrow airport is reliable and frequent. There are plenty of coaches, taxis and regular trains, including the Heathrow Express. Alternatively there are plenty of airport parking companies, car hire providers and airport hotels nearby.

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Travel Extras

Book Your Transport

Take advantage of no booking fee on National Express coaches to and from Heathrow Airport!

Relax Before Your Flight

Book your airport lounge from just £17.95 and relax while you wait for your flight in comfortable surroundings.

What's Allowed?

View the latest hand luggage and security rules in place at Heathrow Airport.

Smart Shopper

Make the most of duty free by planning your airport shopping online.

Latest Heathrow Airport News

New identity for Heathrow Airport

BAA may be losing its monopoly on the UK’s airports after it was forced by the Competition Commission to sell off a few of them, but it has now decided to give Heathrow Airport, by far its largest a...

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£800,000 of cocaine left at Heathrow

If you were an international drug dealer, you might imagine that the hardest part of smuggling your wares back into the UK would be getting it onto the plane in the first place. But one drug trafficke...

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Terminal 5 affected by "heave"

It may have been described as a “living breathing advertisement for Britain’s ambition” by BAA chairman Sir Nigel Rudd, but most of the UK remember Terminal 5’s opening for the chaos that ensu...

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New Heathrow to Las Vegas flights from BA

If you fancy taking your chances in some of the largest casinos on the planet and like the thought of a wild holiday in ‘Sin City’ then you are in luck. Getting to Las Vegas from the UK has just b...

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Snow grounds planes at Heathrow

After the arguments surrounding the confirmation that a controversial third runway is to get the go ahead at Heathrow, Britain’s largest airport found itself facing very different difficulties last ...

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