Civilian Aviation

London Heathrow - The History and Viewing

London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow, located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is the largest and busiest airport in the United Kingdom. It is the third busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and it handles more international passengers than any other airport in the world.

Brilliant work from Mark K! A fantastic and very informative article with some incrediable images, well worth a look!

Just read it myself, good work Mark K, nice to read an informative article with some good history.

and cracking photo's as well.

Geoff

Mark Just to let you know when using 09 for arrivals a lot of the aircraft now land on 09L if they are using T4 & T5 this is done all through the day especially Emirates,Qatar,Gulf,Etihad etc..

Saracen wrote:Mark Just to let you know when using 09 for arrivals a lot of the aircraft now land on 09L if they are using T4 & T5 this is done all through the day especially Emirates,Qatar,Gulf,Etihad etc..

99.9% of aircraft should land on 09L...

99.9% of aircraft should land on 09L...

Last time I was there at least 50% of the foreign heavies landing on 09R.. Including the EK A380

Not a lot of traffic compared to what there is.

I only heard that Heathrow airport is one of the biggest airport in the world. It situated at London. Thanks anyway for your other information regarding Heathrow airport.