London Heathrow Airport facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
London Heathrow Airport
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Heathrow Terminal 5 building
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | BAA Limited | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Heathrow Airport Limited | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Hillingdon, London, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 83 ft / 25 m | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.heathrowairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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London Heathrow Airport, or Heathrow, is the main, and busiest airport serving the United Kingdom. Heathrow is also Europe's busiest airport for passenger traffic, and handles more international passenger traffic than any other airport in the world.
Heathrow is owned and operated by BAA Limited, which also owns/operates six other UK airports and is itself owned by an international group led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group. Heathrow is the main hub of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.
Heathrow is in the London Borough of Hillingdon, 15 miles (24 km) west of Central London, England, Heathrow has two parallel main runways running east-west and five terminals. The site covers 12.14 square kilometres (4.69 square miles). Terminal 5 was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 14 March 2008 and opened to passengers on 27 March 2008. Construction of Heathrow East to replace Terminal 2 and The Queens Building is planned to start in 2008 and be completed by 2012, and Terminals 3 and 4 will be refurbished during this period. In November 2007 a consultation process began for the building of a new third runway.
Heathrow Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P527) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
Runway use
Today, Heathrow airport uses two operation runways. These are:
- Northern runway (09L/27R)
- Southern runway (09R/27L).
Currently, 1 runway is used for takeoff and another used for landing, depending on the approach path used at the time. Approaching planes are normally cycled between two options at 12 hour intervals in order to reduce noise and environmental impacts for residents. In the future, BAA are considering changing to "Mixed mode" where both runways are used for landing and takeoff. This would boost space.
Images for kids
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A Qantas Boeing 747-400 on approach to London Heathrow runway 27L
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Aerial photo of Heathrow Airport from the 1950s, before the terminals were built
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Heathrow in 2009, much expanded from its original layout.
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Central waiting area in Terminal 5
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Concorde G-BOAB in storage at Heathrow
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Heathrow's control tower with a departing Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 in the background.
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British Airways aircraft at Terminal 5C
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Terminal 2 central departures area
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Terminal 4 bird's-eye view
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Terminal 5 bird's-eye view
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Development of passenger numbers, aircraft movements and air freight between 1986 and 2014
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The Compass Centre, the head office of Heathrow Airport Holdings
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Heathrow Airport tube and rail stations (Note: The map is outdated as TfL Rail is now the Elizabeth Line.)
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Heathrow Express train at London Paddington
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Terminal 5 airside Transit System
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Entrance at the southern end of the M4 Motorway spur, showing a scale model of Concorde, replaced since 2008 by the Emirates A380 scale model.
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British Airways aircraft queuing for take-off
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One of the transport projects being considered is the Western Rail Approach to Heathrow
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See also
In Spanish: Aeropuerto de Londres-Heathrow para niños
