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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

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What's Allowed?

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

Smart Shopper

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Latest Heathrow Airport News

£21.7 billion boost from Heathrow third runway

If the third runway at Heathrow is eventually built, the financial benefit to the UK economy will be enormous. According to the BCC (British Chambers of Commerce), it would provide a boost of £21.7 b...

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Full body scanners may be illegal

The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) has raised serious concerns about the legality of the government’s decision to install full-body scanners at UK airports. The machines, which use mic...

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BA third-quarter loss smaller than expected

British Airways has announced a pre-tax loss of £50 million in the three months to December 2009. Despite yet another quarter of loss making, it was a much smaller loss than had been expected, and as...

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Campaigners plan ‘last stand’ fortress

Facing defeat at the hands of the Government and the British Airports Authority (BAA), famous campaign group, Greenpeace, is to construct an impregnable 'fortress' in the village of Sipson, near Heath...

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Easter strike averted

Unite has spared British Airways (BA) the ignominy of flight cancellations over the 2010 Easter weekend. The union expressed a desire to see “families travel in confidence,” but made no promises a...

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