Heathrow claims Europe-leading increase in passenger numbers in 2022

Heathrow Airport handled almost six million passengers in December 2022, according to a database posted on its website, almost twice as many during the same month in 2021. Annual traffic for 2022 hit 61.6 million passengers, or 76% of 2019, during 2022. At 42.2 million higher than in 2021, the increase was the highest of any airport in Europe, according to a Heathrow statement published after the data were updated. The airport, which earlier the same day was revealed to have been caught up in a late-December security alert relating to the detection of uranium in a package, said the