The UK’s hub airport said in a report to investors that traffic would reach 61.4 million passengers this year, which is at the “upper end” of its previous forecast and represents around 75% of 2019’s passenger numbers of 80.9 million. This compares to traffic of just 22.1 million travellers in 2020 and 19.4 million in 2021.
Heathrow is currently predicting that passenger traffic in 2023 will rise by 9.5% year-on-year to 67.2 million, which would still be 17% lower than pre-Covid figures.
