Facts and figures
Size
- Total size of Heathrow Airport: 1,227 hectares
- Number of runways: 2
- Length of runways: Northern 3,902m x 45m. Southern 3,658m x 45m.
Movements
- Annual air transport movements in 2012: 471,341
- Daily average air transport movements in 2012: 1,288
Aircraft stands
- Number of aircraft stands served by an air bridge: 125
- Number of remote stands: 49
- Number of cargo stands: 12
Destinations and airlines
- Number of airlines: 84
- Number of destinations served: 184 (in 80 countries)
Most popular destinations
- New York (JFK)
- Dubai
- Dublin
- Frankfurt
- Amsterdam
Passenger numbers
- Number of passengers arriving and departing per day: average 191,200 (split 50/50 between arriving and departing)
- Number of passengers arriving and departing in 2012: 70 million
- Busiest day ever recorded (passenger numbers): 31 July 2011 with 233,561
- Busiest year ever recorded (passenger numbers): 2012 with 69.98 million
- Percentage of international passengers in 2012: 93% (65.3 million)
- Percentage of domestic passengers in 2012: 7% (4.7 million)
- Percentage of business travellers in 2012: 30% (20.7 million)
- Percentage of other leisure travellers in 2012: 70% (49.3 million)
- Percentage of transfer passengers in 2012: 37% (26.0 million)
Passenger volume by terminal (millions) 2012:
- Terminal 1 – 13.6 million passengers on 119,183 flights
- Terminal 2 – closed for construction
- Terminal 3 – 18.6 million passengers on 96,326 flights
- Terminal 4 – 9.8 million passengers on 59,955 flights
- Terminal 5 – 28.1 million passengers on 193,440 flights
Cargo
- Cargo tonnage in 2012: 1.46 million metric tonnes
Terminals
Areas per terminal:
- Terminal 1 – 74,601 square metres
- Terminal 2 – current under redevelopment
- Terminal 3 – 98,962 square metres
- Terminal 4 – 105,481 square metres
- Terminal 5 – 353,020 square metres
Figures do not include Flight Connections Centre and passenger piers
Year each terminal opened:
- Terminal 1 – 1968
- Terminal 2 – 2014*
- Terminal 3 – 1961
- Terminal 4 – 1986
- Terminal 5 – 2008
*Currently under development
