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Heathrow expansion

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
    Politics
    Heathrow’s third runway at risk if Reeves is removed after May elections

    UK chancellor has been driving force behind latest attempt to expand London hub airport

    A commercial aeroplane descends toward a runway at London Heathrow airport with runway lights and fencing visible below.
  • Monday, 20 April, 2026
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Heathrow can raise airline fees to pay for third runway bid, regulator says

    Civil Aviation Authority’s draft decision comes despite criticism from carriers over airport’s expansion project

    A British Airways Boeing 777 parked at Heathrow Terminal 5 with another British Airways plane taking off in the background.
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    Airports
    Heathrow warns that third runway must avert HS2-style costs spiral

    Airport proposes setting up oversight panel to keep project on track

    Aerial artist’s impression showing Heathrow Airport with a proposed third runway and expanded terminals.
  • Wednesday, 25 February, 2026
    Airports
    Third runway will cost £15 per passenger, Heathrow boss claims

    Comments by Thomas Woldbye come as Britain’s hub airport awaits crucial ruling by regulator

    Passengers with luggage walk and wait in the international arrivals area at Heathrow airport's Terminal 2.
  • Friday, 13 February, 2026
    Airports
    Heathrow feels crowded because Britons and EU travellers ‘keep crashing into each other’, says CEO

    Thomas Woldbye says passengers at UK’s only hub airport are often in ‘the wrong place’

    Travellers with suitcases enter Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 under a “Welcome to Terminal 5”.
  • Wednesday, 11 February, 2026
    UK airports
    The Big Read. The airlines fighting the expansion of Heathrow

    The carriers say the £33bn plan for a new runway is unaffordable. The airport says the companies just want to keep out competitors

    Montage image of aircraft and air traffic controllers
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Politics
    Heathrow boss calls for faster runway approval to meet 2029 start date

    UK’s biggest airport has formally begun planning application for £33bn project

    A commercial airplane descends toward a runway at London Heathrow Airport, with runway lights and barbed wire visible in the foreground.
  • Tuesday, 25 November, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Airlines and regulator warn over rising Heathrow costs after runway approval

    British Airways owner says it has ‘serious concerns’ about project, which requires moving M25

    Several airplanes from different airlines are taxiing and parked at gates at Heathrow Airport, with a busy runway and city skyline in the background.
  • Monday, 24 November, 2025
    Politics
    UK ministers back Heathrow airport’s £49bn plan for third runway

    Proposal to expand London hub will require moving part of M25 motorway

    A British Airways Boeing 777-200ER approaches runway 27R at London Heathrow during sunset, with airport lighting and a departing plane visible.
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    Airports
    UK aims to fast-track third runway at Heathrow

    Review of planning policy document will ‘advance plans for delivery’, says transport secretary

    A British Airways passenger jet descends towards Heathrow airport, passing illuminated landing lights and a barbed-wire fence.
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Politics
    Heathrow ‘ready to start mobilising’ as it unveils £49bn expansion plan

    Project includes building third runway and rerouting Britain’s busiest motorway

    Aircraft taxi at Heathrow airport
  • Monday, 28 July, 2025
    Airports
    Lex. Heathrow’s third runway could actually be good value

    The numbers making the rounds are big. But not all the spluttering is justified

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    A passenger airplane, operated by British Airways, next to other airplanes on the tarmac at London Heathrow Airport
  • Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
    Airports
    Heathrow third runway ‘won’t be cheap’, says chief executive

    Thomas Woldbye defends expected high price tag of expanding Europe’s busiest airport

    British Airways planes on the runway at Heathrow
  • Monday, 21 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Political earthquakes beneath UK’s infrastructure plans

    Reform threats are rightly worrying green investors, but history tells us party poll rankings can be far from accurate

    Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    UK business
    Heathrow seeks rise in landing charges to fund £10bn expansion

    Airlines expected to oppose airport’s request to regulators to increase the levies

    A plane lands at Heathrow airport in London, England
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK airports
    Luton airport expansion gets government approval

    Project includes a new terminal but not another runway and will see passenger capacity almost double to 32mn

    Passengers wait to board a flight from Luton to Budapest
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    Airports
    Heathrow looks at building shorter third runway in bid to cut costs

    London’s hub airport is preparing a detailed expansion plan after winning government backing

    British Airways aircraft at Heathrow airport
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Emirates boss warns against forcing airlines to finance Heathrow’s third runway

    Sir Tim Clark says higher landing fees to fund the project could prompt legal challenges

    An Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft at the gate at Heathrow airport in London
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Environment
    UK needs air travel reform if it wants third Heathrow runway, says airport boss

    Thomas Woldbye confident government is committed to making controversial project happen

    Thomas Woldbye
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    UK airports
    Heathrow aims to hit 100mn passengers a year as third runway beckons

    The expansion would be the largest private investment programme into the London airport

    Aircrafts taxi at Heathrow airport in London
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Airlines
    UK forecasts small role for green airline fuel by 2040 despite Reeves’ claims

    Government’s models suggest Sustainable Aviation Fuel will take years to make significant impact

    747 Flying Testbed aircraft
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Politics
    Heathrow third runway flights will take off ‘within a decade’, says Reeves

    Chancellor also vows bat tunnels will not be used in UK infrastructure projects as she defends new growth measures

    Rachel Reeves, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivers a speech on economic plans in Eynsham, England. She stands behind a podium with a sign that reads ‘kickstart economic growth’
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Environment
    ‘The only winners are lawyers’: Heathrow braces for long journey to third runway

    Totemic infrastructure project set for significant hurdles even after political green light

    A plane in the sky and Heathrow terminal imposed on a graphic showing total number of Heathrow flights with third runway at top
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Airports
    Lex. Heathrow expansion can support growth — with a long runway

    A shovel is yet to hit the ground despite efforts to expand the hub dating back decades — and the barriers remain huge

    Heathrow airport
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Politics
    Rachel Reeves urges Heathrow airport to fast-track third runway

    Boss of hub calls timetable for expansion ‘ambitious, but not undoable’

    Rachel Reeves
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