An enlargement connection by the airport's owners would alteration it to accommodate 150m passengers per year. Heathrow said "the lawsuit for enlargement has ne'er been clearer".
In a statement, it added: "Our plans volition guarantee the state gets the infrastructure it needs to enactment competitory and volition present all-important economical growth."
The airdrome recorded 84.46 cardinal passengers successful 2025 and said 19 July was its busiest time of the twelvemonth truthful acold arsenic galore schools broke up for summer, with 267,000 passengers passing through.
It added that respective caller airlines began serving the airdrome past month, which demonstrates "clear request for entree to Heathrow".
Last month, it was revealed Heathrow volition beryllium allowed to complaint airlines much for its services to retrieve wealth spent connected the aboriginal stages of its 3rd runway project.
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