What are the 24 routes from Heathrow airport with over 1 million passengers annually?

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• BajiNahid says:

  15 Jan15 January 05:11

  wonder why the EDI-LGW was culled and that was the end of that. Surely would have diluted the heathrow numbers.

  We need a BA LGW service as the other alternative LON airport and not just heathrow or city.

  Also EDI has been very up and coming and many tourists are flocking to visit!

  • newsmike says:

    15 Jan15 January 05:34

    MAN-LGW was also culled, significant loss of connectivity on the leisure side

  • Andrew. says:

    15 Jan15 January 08:59

    A couple more BA GLA to LGW flights a day would be equally helpful. For many people in the central belt, it doesn’t really make much difference whether they go East or West to get to the airport.

    Are the figures for 2007 available on LHR-EDI? I’m curious what the difference is in loadings from before the financial crisis when between RBS Group and HBOS could probably have filled the first BA flight and the equivalent BMI flight every morning on the route from the Capital to LHR. BA (who operated a 767 on the domestic diagram) & BMI operating around 20 flights a day between them back then, and down to 11 a day on lower capacity equipment now, the passenger numbers must be lower.

    • Stu_N says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:36

      “For many people in the central belt, it doesn’t really make much difference whether they go East or West to get to the airport.” Disagree – Edinburgh is easier for anyone east of Baillieston by road as you don’t have to go through or round the centre of Glasgow and the public transport links to Glasgow Airport are woeful.

      GLA is now very much in the shadow of EDI, it had 6.5m passengers vs 11.3m for EDI last year and the facilities and general upkeep of the place is miles behind Edinburgh IMO.

      The 767 effect is less than you’d maybe think too – the short haul 767s were 237 seats and an A321 is now 220 seats.

    • CJD says:

      15 Jan15 January 14:15

      RBS Group (now NatWest) will still account for a lot of EDI-LHR flights because of the location of Gogarburn. EDI-London is the main internal flight journey which the group is trying to encourage staff off and onto trains instead.

    • CJD says:

      15 Jan15 January 14:19

      I’d argue that Edinburgh is probably more convenient for anyone who lives east of Glasgow. The road connections are much better than side of Glasgow and it avoids having to travel through central Glasgow on the M8.

  • Lesley says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:17

    Totally agree, it’s a real pain having to go to LHR and then get a bus to LGW for your next onward flight, having to do this next week for trip to Costa Rica.

    • Roy says:

      15 Jan15 January 13:51

      It’s a shame there was no traction behind the proposal to have a high-speed rail link connecting LHR and LGW so that they could function as a single hub. I guess Heathrow inevitably was not going to support a proposal that would make LGW more attractive…

      • Tom says:

        20 Jan20 January 18:01

        Last weekend we travelled LHR T5 > Elizabeth Line > Farringdon > Thames Link > LGW for slightly more than the coach, slightly longer, but no M25 risks\stress

• e14 says:

  15 Jan15 January 05:26

  Amsterdam is apparently a good place to do back to backs for EU’s

  Don’t think Sofía will make 1m pax, but it might given the party buses BA is running

• Ian says:

  15 Jan15 January 05:36

  Can’t believe that Miami isn’t in the list.

  Surely more fly there annually than some of the routes?

  • NicktheGreek says:

    15 Jan15 January 07:33

    Must be close, but looking at some others on the list there’s a fair few flights, some surprisingly so.
    Toronto – 4-6 flights per day
    Boston – 7-8 flights per day
    Lisbon – 12ish flights per day
    Geneva – 12ish flights per day.

    Miami 5-6 flights per day

  • Mark says:

    15 Jan15 January 13:57

    Miami has just been reduced from 2-1 flight a day.

    • NicktheGreek says:

      15 Jan15 January 14:40

      plus 2 per day for AA and 2 per day for Virgin.

  • HALTraffic says:

    15 Jan15 January 23:36

    Miami was very close, in all likelihood it will make it back onto the list in 2024.

• Subhajyoti says:

  15 Jan15 January 06:52

  Several India bound passengers take indirect flights from Heathrow (ie via Dubai, Doha, Amsterdam etc) … Delhi & Mumbai could have gone further up the list if this is taken into account

  • Justin says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:10

    Non-sense. It’s the same for all destinations, and I doubt Doha would be on the list at all if you removed connecting passengers!

    • BBbetter says:

      15 Jan15 January 09:40

      True, but its changing. With Air India getting better and Vistara expanding, there will be some shift away from ME3 to Delhi & Mumbai.

• Richie says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:01

  Munich is higher than I thought it would be.

  • ADS says:

    15 Jan15 January 11:34

    I came here to say that !

    Also, is it the only European airport on the list that isn’t a full blown hub?

    • Lynx says:

      15 Jan15 January 13:39

      Munich is a hub for LH and is also a popular leisure destination in its own right.

• Phillip says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:08

  I too would have expected Singapore to be higher up but thinking about it, despite SQ’s frequencies, BA is still operating smaller aircraft to what it did pre pandemic.

  • BBbetter says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:10

    I wonder if the frequency to HKG is actually higher than SIN.

    • Phillip says:

      15 Jan15 January 17:38

      I would expect HKG to pick up too – again, BA is barely operating 2 flights at the moment both on 787s but HKG was a lot later in lifting restrictions compared to SIN. I guess SIN is also far enough that more people are likely to fly indirect compared to DOH and DXB. Interesting that AUH is nowhere to be seen!

      • John says:

        15 Jan15 January 19:40

        CX has 4.5 flights daily and would like to restart LGW if they manage to sort out the staffing problems. BA has had 2 daily since around 2007 when the 3rd flight was dropped.

        Anyone who wanted to go to HK after restrictions ended has gone by now. I suspect there is a permanent lower demand and HKG is also affected by the route diversion whereas SIN isn’t really, which may be part of why they are using the A380 elsewhere

        • Phillip says:

          16 Jan16 January 14:46

          During certain months BA28 hasn’t even operated daily!

  • Alex G says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:17

    BA is putting an A380 on one of the daily SIN flights in March.

• TimM says:

  15 Jan15 January 08:41

  There is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy. We can only travel on the routes that exist and the well-served ones are more popular for convenience.

  Clearly there are more customers available to travel between two big cities so the airlines have a slam dunk there.

  I would like to see the same figures adjusted by population of the origin + destination.

• Sarah says:

  15 Jan15 January 09:10

  I’m surprised that Dublin is so high – BA have really cut back on their flights to there and handed a lot of the business to Aer Lingus, you’d think they’d want to have kept more for themselves.

  • Rich says:

    15 Jan15 January 09:42

    ? Both IAG owned. The stat is for LHR routes not BA routes so supply switches between carriers are irrelevant.

  • john says:

    15 Jan15 January 10:47

    Running Aer Lingus instead of BA could be a way to increase capacity since they don’t operate a business class cabin on the route so can sell all the seats where as BA have to block middle in club.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    15 Jan15 January 11:04

    These figures are for all airlines operating a route not just BA flights.

  • ADS says:

    15 Jan15 January 16:12

    And in addition to all the LHR-DUB flights there are probably more flights from other London airports to DUB than any other European airport.

    Looking at next Monday, currently available:

    LCY 7 [BA]
    LGW 12 [EI/FR]
    STN 8 [FR]
    LTN 3 [FR]

  • Michael says:

    15 Jan15 January 19:35

    As well as BA’s traffic, Aer Lingus runs up to 14 daily rotations to LHR from DUB in the peak summer schedule, a mix of A320s and A321s. Some of the A321s are their long haul config but the short haul ones are pretty densely configured with only the first row with blocked middle seats (Aer Space). Some of BAs 777s used on LHR-JFK only carry 235 passengers so not that much more than an A321.

    At one stage in the past LON-DUB was one of the busiest city pairs in the world.

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