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Heathrow has busiest January on record

Last month was Heathrow’s busiest January on record, with over 6.3 million passengers travelling through the airport - up over 5% on the same time last year.

Image courtesy Heathrow

January marked the eleventh month in a row Heathrow averaged over 200,000 passengers a day, with trans-Atlantic travel a key contributor of this growth. Over 1.2 million passengers travelled between the UK and US, up 8% compared with 2024.

Alongside record-breaking passenger numbers, Heathrow also retained its crown as the ‘Best UK Airport’ at the Travel Weekly Globe Travel Awards for a fourth consecutive year.

Cargo

Heathrow’s connections facilitated close to 120,000 tonnes of cargo being delivered in January, twice as much as all other UK airports combined. –  underscoring our role as the country’s most valuable port, driving trade and investment across the UK.

Expansion
Welcoming the Chancellor’s recent show of support for a third runway at Heathrow, the airport is aiming to deliver this project at pace which it says will require policy changes, including on airspace modernisation, planning policy reform and changes to the regulatory regime. It is now working with stakeholders to finalise its plans and will submit its proposal to Government by the summer.

Heathrow CEO Thomas Woldbye said: “Twenty twenty-five has started how we mean to go on – serving record breaking passenger numbers and delivering trade and investment across the whole of the UK. To ensure we continue on this upwards trajectory, the Government has signalled their support for an expanded Heathrow. We’ll now work with Ministers to progress the necessary policy changes required to advance our growth plans.”

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