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Flights and passenger numbers

In 2021 Heathrow served 19.4 millions passengers, that's an average of 128,178 every day. Last year (2021), 87.6% of our passengers were international (17.0 million) versus 12.4% of passengers who were domestic (2.4 million). Most of these passengers were travelling for leisure (62%, 12.0 million) versus for business (28%, 7.4 million).

The busiest year ever recorded was 2019 when 80.9 million passengers travelled through our airport.

Last year (2021) there were 195,340 air transport movements at Heathrow. On average, that’s 536 flights arriving or departing every day.