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UK airports

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    London’s airports test Labour with plans for rapid growth

    Luton and Gatwick ruling to come this year, while Stansted and City expansion already approved

    A plane taking of at Gatwick
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow predicts Christmas travel boom

    UK airport forecasts record December as United Airlines expects festive surge

    Travellers arrive at Heathrow Airport in London
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Heathrow expansion
    Heathrow’s new biggest shareholder backs airport expansion

    French private equity group Ardian says groups it invests in need to have a ‘growth plan’

    Heathrow International Arrivals lounge
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    PSP Investments
    Canadian pension fund buys UK airports operator for £1.5bn

    PSP acquires AGS from Macquarie and former Heathrow investor Ferrovial

    Lone passenger at an airport
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Heathrow expansion
    UK cabinet split over allowing third runway at Heathrow

    Several ministers, including Ed Miliband, are opposed to airport’s expansion

    A plane lands on the southern runway at London Heathrow Airport
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow says resumed dividends ‘probable’ as it raises forecasts

    Airport’s peak summer season boosted by passengers transiting to Paris for Olympics

    Electronic boards in the departure lounge at London Heathrow airport’s Terminal 3
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Ministers outline plans to redraw airspace over London airports

    Redesigning flight paths could lead to greener flights but also new noise pollution

    A passenger aircraft, operated by Air China, flies over residential properties as it comes in to land at London Heathrow Airport in London
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    London City Airport Ltd
    London City Airport turns to leisure market as homeworking hits business travel

    Chief executive says corporate travel has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, with day trips to Europe badly hit

    Alison FitzGerald, chief executive of London City Airport, stands outdoors at the airport with a backdrop of British Airways aircraft tails She is wearing a black coat and glasses.
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow reports record summer as it considers new push for expansion

    Airport’s highest-ever passenger numbers leave it operating close to capacity

    Visitors wait for airline passengers in the arrivals hall at Heathrow airport’s Terminal 5
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Gatwick Airport Ltd
    Gatwick airport waits for approval to expand as business booms

    Passenger numbers rise in first half by almost 8% as demand for air travel takes off

    Passengers with luggage and buggies move through the check-in area of Gatwick Airport
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Labour gives green light to London City Airport expansion

    Government’s permission for increase in passengers is first major infrastructure decision

    A view towards Canary Wharf from City Airport as a plane lands
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Heathrow expansion
    Labour signals ‘open-minded’ approach to Heathrow third runway

    Controversial proposals for airport expansion would have to meet four tests, including on climate

    A BA plane comes in to land at Heathrow
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Heathrow forced to cut airline landing fees

    Civil Aviation Authority decision follows lengthy dispute between the airport and airlines

    A British Airways Boeing 747 comes in to land at Heathrow aiport in London
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Manchester Airports Group seeks international expansion

    CEO O’Toole lays out plans for commercial deals to manage facilities overseas as industry recovers from pandemic

    Passengers at London Stansted Airport
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Heathrow
    Heathrow vows ‘robust’ plan as it faces record-breaking passenger numbers and strikes

    Surging demand comes amid biggest shake-up of airport’s ownership since privatisation in 1990s

    Passengers at Heathrow airport
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    UK delays new airport security scanners deadline

    Fresh extension means travel hubs have until June 2025 to install technology that promises to cut queues

    People wait at check-in desks at Gatwick
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Gatwick Airport Ltd
    Gatwick plans first shareholder dividend in five years

    UK’s second-largest airport expects passenger numbers to be back at pre-pandemic levels in 2025

    Passengers queue at Gatwick airport passport control
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    NATS Ltd
    Working from home made UK air traffic control chaos worse, report finds

    Big outage in August 2023 ‘more protracted’ because engineers were not in the office

    Passengers waiting at Stansted airport, near London, on August 29, 2023 after air traffic control chaos hit flights
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    Private equity group Carlyle to take control of London airport

    Deal between buyout group and Esken ends months of wrangling over future of Southend airport

    London Southend Airport
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthHeathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Thomas Woldbye, the Dane now charting Heathrow’s future

    Former Copenhagen airport head will need to smooth relations with airlines and make a decision on a third runway

    Thomas Woldbye
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Heathrow looks to expand capacity as it records profit for first time since pandemic

    UK airport forecasts passenger numbers this year reaching all-time high

    Inside Heathrow Airport
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Carlyle in talks with London airport owner to resolve loan row

    Esken considers new funding deal for struggling Southend airport in exchange for giving up control

    Outside London Southend airport, in Essex
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Carlyle Group LP
    Carlyle seeks early loan repayment from London Southend Airport owner

    US private equity group and aviation group Esken have been embroiled in a legal row for months over convertible loan

    London Southend Airport
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    More Heathrow shareholders plan to sell stakes alongside Ferrovial

    USS, Canada’s CDPQ and Singapore’s GIC push to exit, putting £2.4bn deal with Saudis and private equity at risk

    A British Airways aircraft takes off from Heathrow
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Why Saudi Arabia and private equity have landed stakes in Heathrow

    Two new shareholders, PIF and Ardian could increase their investment further as part of airport’s ownership structure

    Terminal 2, Heathrow Airport, London, UK
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