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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2023
Heathrow Airport passenger numbers down 88% amid ongoing travel restrictions

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Reuters
11 August, 2020, 06:35 pm
Last modified: 11 August, 2020, 06:37 pm

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Heathrow Airport passenger numbers down 88% amid ongoing travel restrictions

Heathrow, which is owned by a group of investors including Spain’s Ferrovial, the Qatar Investment Authority and China Investment Corp, said 60 percent of Heathrow’s route network remained grounded, requiring passengers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival

Reuters
11 August, 2020, 06:35 pm
Last modified: 11 August, 2020, 06:37 pm
FILE PHOTO: Passengers from international flights arrive at Heathrow Airport, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), London, Britain, July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville
FILE PHOTO: Passengers from international flights arrive at Heathrow Airport, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), London, Britain, July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Britain's Heathrow Airport renewed its call for Covid-19 testing at airports on Tuesday as it reported an 88 percent plunge in July passenger numbers due to ongoing restrictions on travel which it said were strangling the UK economy.

Heathrow, which is owned by a group of investors including Spain's Ferrovial, the Qatar Investment Authority and China Investment Corp, said 60 percent of Heathrow's route network remained grounded, requiring passengers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

Despite thousands of Britons holidaying overseas after months of lockdown, the government has already reimposed quarantine on arrivals from Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Bahamas and Andorra.

Last week finance minister Rishi Sunak said the government would not hesitate to add more countries to its quarantine list when asked whether France could also join it.

However, Heathrow believes airport testing of passengers could safely keep routes open and restart others to help the UK's economic recovery.

"Tens of thousands of jobs are being lost because Britain remains cut off from critical markets such as the US, Canada and Singapore," said Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye.

"The government can save jobs by introducing testing to cut quarantine from higher risk countries, while keeping the public safe from a second wave of Covid."

Over 860,000 passengers travelled through Heathrow in July - down 88 percent on the previous year, but a slight uplift in traffic since the start of the pandemic, driven by the UK government's creation of the first "travel corridors" on July 4.

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