London's Heathrow: Europe's biggest airport

The sprawling facility west of London welcomed a record number of travellers last year, with the aviation sector having recovered from the turbulent Covid years. Almost 84 million passengers passed through the airport in 2024 -- a third from the neighbouring European Union -- and up three million compared with the previous high in 2019, one year before the pandemic struck. That compared with about 70 million accessing Paris Charles de Gaulle airport last year, nearly 67 million at Amsterdam's Schiphol...