The Latest Breaking News from Heathrow

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…

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Giant airline says ‘LHR chose not to act, not to plan, not to invest’ and says passenger cut is ‘figure plucked from thin air’

Up to September 11, Heathrow has restricted its capacity to 100,000 daily departing passengers due to a lack of resources

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