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Heathrow airport

July 2024

  • a delayed passenger snoozing at Manchester airport: he wears a straw hat pulled down over his face, a white hoodie, grey jeans and black trainers as he rests with his legs crossed, next to a huge black suitcase and two blue rucksacks. Other baggage and people can be seen in the background under bright, harsh lighting.

    ‘As prepared as we can be’: UK airlines and airports get ready for summer getaway

  • A plane flies over a sign that reads ‘Welcome to Heathrow’

    Man who slipped in puddle of Baileys on way to BA flight could get £4m

June 2024

  • An aircraft departing from Amsterdam Schiphol in the Netherlands.

    Pollutionwatch
    Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds

    Results show increase in symptoms such as wheeziness in presence of high aviation-related ultrafine particles

May 2024

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    Digested week: Kim Kardashian’s corset, dated insults – and a fuss at the Garrick

    Emma Brockes
    Club members seem to have an idea of the type of women they’re after; and why retiring ‘tosspot’ and ‘git’ is unacceptable

  • 'Nothing ever works': UK passengers delayed at airport passport control after e-gates fail – video

    The outage impacted Heathrow, Bristol, Gatwick, Manchester, Edinburgh and other airports
  • Passengers queuing at Heathrow airport

    E-gates back online after chaos at Heathrow and other UK airports

    Home Office rules out cyber-attack as a cause of technical outage that delayed thousands of passengers at passport control

April 2024

  • Passengers line up for passport control in the UK Border area

    Hundreds of Heathrow Border Force officers to start four-day strike

  • Passengers look at the departures board at Heathrow airport in London

    Heathrow expects summer holiday season to be ‘busiest on record’

  • A passenger walks through the arrivals area at Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport

    Heathrow urges government to scrap £10 fee for transit passengers

  • Virgin Atlantic plane's wing touching a British Airways aircraft, surrounded by emergency services at Heathrow airport.

    Two passenger planes clip wings at Heathrow

  • Liquid restrictions at UK airports to remain in place until June 2025

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky – podcast

March 2024

  • Immigration figures<br>File photo dated 04/06/14 of a Border Force officer checking passports of arrival passengers in Terminal 2, The Queen Terminal, at Heathrow Airport, as the Government's attempts to slash net migration to the tens of thousands have been dealt another blow as official figures revealed another jump in arrivals to the UK. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday August 28, 2014. Overall net migration - the difference between migrants leaving and arriving in the UK - rose to 243,000 in the year to March, a "statistically significant increase" from 175,000 the previous year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. See PA story POLITICS Immigration. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

    Heathrow Border Force staff vote to strike in dispute over shift patterns

  • Aircrafts taxi at Heathrow airport.

    UK air traffic control chaos prolonged by remote working, review finds

February 2024

  • A check-in area at Heathrow Airport, where a 24-year-old former British Airways employee was allegedly running a £3m immigration scam

    Former BA employee allegedly orchestrated £3m immigration scam from Heathrow check-in desk

    24-year-old suspect, who is believed to have been helping passengers claim asylum in Canada, absconded to India following his arrest
  • view of planes on their stands and taxiing out to the runway in a queue at Heathrow, with one plane coming in to land and the London skyline seen in the background

    London is most exposed city in world to air pollution from aviation, study finds

    Six airports put UK capital ahead of Tokyo and Dubai, with Heathrow second-worst global airport for climate impact
  • London Heathrow airport.

    Asylum seekers evacuated from hotel near Heathrow after power failure

    More than 500 people forced to leave site, with some unsure of where to spend the night

December 2023

  • Plane makes bumpy landing at London Heathrow during Storm Gerrit – video

    Storm causes travel disruption and damages houses and vehicles across parts of UK, with emergency services working to clear affected areas
  • Dancers Casey Nokomis Pereira and Alison Eager outside Terminal 5

    Observer business agenda
    Heathrow boss will need to be light on his feet as fresh investors eye returns

    The airport hopes for a bumper 2024 – but are its new owners happy about the fading prospects for a third runway?
  • Congestion on the M25, two days before Christmas in 2022.

    UK motorists warned of stormy weather in run-up to Christmas

    Traffic congestion, peaking on Friday, will add to delays, while fewer trains run over festive period
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