British Airways to increase flights from Delhi to London Heathrow
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British Airways to increase flights from Delhi to London Heathrow

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British Airways is set to expand its presence in India with the addition of a new daily flight between Delhi and London Heathrow, commencing on April 20, 2025. This move will augment the airline’s schedule across India to 63 flights per week, spanning five key cities. Presently, British Airways operates 56 flights weekly, including three…

Heathrow’s 12-month passenger traffic reaches 81.5 million – Business Traveller
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Heathrow’s 12-month passenger traffic reaches 81.5 million – Business Traveller

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Heathrow Airport’s rolling 12-month traffic has reached a record 81.5 million passengers. For comparison the airport welcomed a total of 79.2 million passengers in 2023, and recently increased its forecast for 2024 from 81.4 to 82.4 million. The airport served 7.2 million customers last month, the first time the London hub has passed the seven-million…

Passenger traffic “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery” – Business Traveller
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Passenger traffic “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery” – Business Traveller

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ACI EUROPE has published its latest figures, showing an increase in passenger traffic across the European airport network of 8.5 per cent in April compared to the same month last year. Volumes were just 0.2 per cent down on pre-pandemic levels, or as ACI put it “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery”. In March…

Heathrow relaunches paid-for Fast Track service after four-year hiatus – Business Traveller
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Heathrow relaunches paid-for Fast Track service after four-year hiatus – Business Traveller

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Heathrow is bringing back its paid-for Fast Track security service for the first time since 2020. The service is now available to pre-book for departures from tomorrow (1 June), and costs £12.50 per person. Fast Track is open daily between 0600 and 2200 across all of the airport’s terminals, with customers able to select a…

Dubai International welcomes record 23 million passengers in Q1 – Business Traveller
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Dubai International welcomes record 23 million passengers in Q1 – Business Traveller

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Dubai International Airport has published its latest passenger numbers, recording its busiest quarter in history. The hub airport welcomed 23,052.060 passengers in Q1, up 8.3 per cent on the same period last year. India was the top destination for flights from Dubai International over the quarter, with 3.1 million customers, followed by Saudi Arabia (two…

British Airways to launch first ever flights to Tromso – Business Traveller
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British Airways to launch first ever flights to Tromso – Business Traveller

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Return fares start from £153, and BA highlighted that customers can take skiing or snowboarding equipment as part of their checked baggage so long as the bag is within 190 x 75 x 65cm. SAS is also launching seasonal flights between Heathrow and Tromso from 2 November, and fellow IAG carrier Iberia will commence a…

Emirates now using SAF on flights from Heathrow – Business Traveller
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Emirates now using SAF on flights from Heathrow – Business Traveller

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Emirates has received what it says is its largest purchase of sustainable aviation fuel to date, with 3,000 tonnes having been delivered from Shell Aviation at Heathrow Airport. The carrier said that the SAF “will be safely dropped into existing airport fuelling infrastructure and aircraft jet engines”. Current rules allow for a maximum 50 per…

Plaza Premium unveils art exhibitions at Gatwick and Heathrow lounges – Business Traveller
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Plaza Premium unveils art exhibitions at Gatwick and Heathrow lounges – Business Traveller

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Meanwhile the group’s Gatwick North Terminal lounge is hosting the Nature exhibition by English artist and poet Joe Machine, featuring “varying size original acrylic on canvas colour paintings, alongside unique monochrome scraperboards – a form of direct engraving where black India ink is hand scratched to create a fine white china clay line”. The lounge…

Virgin Atlantic Holidays launches sale including lounge access on selected bookings – Business Traveller
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Virgin Atlantic Holidays launches sale including lounge access on selected bookings – Business Traveller

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Virgin Atlantic Holidays has launched its latest sale promotion, with selected packages also including free lounge at Heathrow Airport. Customers bookings holidays to New York, Las Vegas, Jamaica, Dubai, Maldives and St Lucia can get free lounge access at the No1 Lounge at Heathrow T3 The offer is valid for bookings made by 31 May,…

Heathrow T2 welcomes one millionth flight – Business Traveller
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Heathrow T2 welcomes one millionth flight – Business Traveller

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Heathrow celebrated the milestone of one million flights at its Terminal 2 this weekend. The honour went to Icelandair’s flight F1454 from Keflavik International Airport, which was greeted with a celebratory message from Heathrow’s air traffic control tower. The terminal will also celebrate its 10th birthday this summer, having opened on 4 June, 2014 with…