The Latest Breaking News from Heathrow

More than 70 airlines expected to be hit, including Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, United, Air France, Emirates, and Singapore Airlines

The Independent’s travel correspondent takes on readers’ most burning holiday queries

A strike by refuellers at Britain's busiest airport Heathrow is set to go ahead later this week and cause delays for hundreds of flights after workers rejected a revised pay offer, labour union Unite said on Tuesday.

The Heathrow Airport (LHR) decision to cut capacity and request for airlines to stop selling tickets for summer flights has angered the Emirates airline company, which described the airport demands as "unreasonable and unacceptable". Emirates said it had rejected the London hub's demands to cut capacity despite being threatened with…

Bosses at Heathrow want no more than 100,000 departing daily passengers to go through the airport in a bid to alleviate growing problems within its terminals and flight cancellations

Virgin Atlantic cancelled its Delhi-London flight on Thursday and other carriers could also pull out India-London flights

John Holland-Kaye has until midday on Friday to assure ministers the airport has sufficient security workers and to assist disabled passengers

Delta Air Lines packed the aircraft with baggage belonging to customers whose flight to the US had been cancelled

Sarah Olney tells Grant Shapps that Ricmond should not suffer due to ‘incompetence’