London Heathrow Airport is 14 mi (23 km) west of central London. Heathrow has two parallel east–west runways along with four operational passenger terminals, and one cargo terminal.

Heathrow Airport has only two parallel runways running east–west, and 4 passenger terminals with total of 115 gates, with 66 of these being able to support wide body aircraft, and 24 gates being able to support an Airbus A380.

In 2021, it was the seventh-busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic and eighth-busiest in Europe by total passenger traffic. The airport is the primary hub for British Airways and the primary operating base for Virgin Atlantic.

Heathrow Airport processed 80,884,310 passengers in 2019. New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was the most popular route with 3,192,195 passengers.

Photos Rob Vogelaar