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London Heathrow Airport

51.47060°N
-0.46194°W
ARR / DAY
570
▼ 6.0%
DEP / DAY
579
▼ 3.1%
ON-TIME
79.1% Top 25%
arr · avg 5 min
dep · 75% · avg 14 min cal
AVG DELAY
5 min
7d window

London Heathrow Airport (EGLL/LHR) is a large international airport located in London, United Kingdom. It features 2 runways with the longest being 12,799 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 570 arrivals and 579 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 20 carriers across 146 routes. The most active carrier is British Airways (BAW). The busiest route is to Dublin Airport (EIDW). On-time performance averages 79% with an average delay of 5 minutes against scheduled times. At the busiest hour of an average day, we calculated that a plane takes off or lands roughly every 90 seconds.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 133 total

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Go-arounds
14
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Rejected takeoffs
0
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Unstable approaches
119
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Return to field
1

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

17h ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
18 kts
220°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
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EGLL 031620Z AUTO 22018G30KT 9999 SCT029/// BKN036/// BKN046/// //////CB 18/12 Q0998

Observed weather patterns

  • • 23 of 240 unstable approaches (10%) coincided with wind speeds above 20 kt or gusts above 25 kt — 2.7× the rate observed during clear conditions.

Statistical association, not causation. Last 30 days.

Runways

2 installed

12,799 FT MAX
09L/27R
12,799 ft × 164
ASP● LIT
09R/27L
12,001 ft × 164
ASP● LIT

Delays by hour

Avg minutes · local time · last 30 days

Schedule vs actual
0m 5a 18m 6a 19m 7a 26m 8a 30m 9a 28m 10a 34m 11a 30m 12p
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Top carriers

Share of flights

40 total
TOP 9 5,552
British Airways 60% British Airways Shuttle 10% Virgin Atlantic 8% American Airlines 5% United Airlines 5% AER Lingus Teoranta 4% Scandinavian Airlines System 3% Eurowings 3% Deutsche Lufthansa 3%

Top destinations

By flight count

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DUB 206
AMS 166
JFK 141
MAD 138
CDG 132
GVA 126

Carriers

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British Airways
3,320
British Airways Shuttle
532
Virgin Atlantic
454
American Airlines
281
United Airlines
272
AER Lingus Teoranta
233
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Scandinavian Airlines System
169
Eurowings
147
Deutsche Lufthansa
144
Swiss International AIR Lines
129
Delta AIR Lines
125
AIR Canada
122
AIR India
104
Iberia - Lineas Aereas DE Espana
92
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
90
Emirates
79
Qatar Airways Group Q.c.s.c.
78
Turk Hava Yollari (turkish Airlines Co.)
71
Logan AIR
70
Vueling Airlines
67
Cathay Pacific Airways
65
Singapore Airlines
63
AIR France
60
Transportes Aereos Portugueses
60
Saudi Arabian Airlines
56
City Airlines
56
Etihad Airways
52
Aegean Airlines
50
Finnair OYJ
47
Austrian Airlines (aua)
45
Egypt AIR
40
LOT - Polskie Linie Lotnicze
35
Qantas Airways
34
Jetblue Airways Corporation (new York
34
Brussels Airlines
33
Interglobe Aviation Private LTD (t/a Indigo)
33
Gulf AIR
28
China Southern Airlines
27
AIR China
27
EL AL - Israel Airlines
27

Destination network

Great-circle routes from EGLL · last 7d

131 destinations
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Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 9 AM · 1 movement every 90 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Top routes

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Route Operator Flights Avg enroute
LHRDUB
Dublin, IE
 AER Lingus Teoranta 140 1h 17m
LHREDI
Edinburgh, GB
 British Airways Shuttle 110 1h 17m
LHRGLA
Glasgow, GB
 British Airways Shuttle 106 1h 16m
LHRMUC
Munich, DE
 Deutsche Lufthansa 96 1h 46m
LHRMAD
Madrid, ES
 Iberia - Lineas Aereas DE Espana 90 2h 13m
LHRAMS
Amsterdam, NL
 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 89 1h 5m
LHRBCN
Barcelona, ES
 British Airways 89 2h 7m
LHRJFK
New York, US
 British Airways 85 6h 59m
LHRFCO
Rome, IT
 British Airways 83 2h 16m
LHRNCE
Nice, FR
 British Airways 81 1h 59m
LHRAMS
Amsterdam, NL
 British Airways 77 1h 8m
LHRCDG
Paris, FR
 British Airways 74 1h 0m
LHRZRH
Zurich, CH
 Swiss International AIR Lines 73 1h 32m
LHRGVA
Geneva, CH
 British Airways 71 1h 26m
LHRLIN
Milan, IT
 British Airways 71 1h 50m
LHRMAN
Manchester, GB
 British Airways Shuttle 67 0h 59m
LHRDUB
Dublin, IE
 British Airways 66 1h 19m
LHRBHD
Belfast, GB
 British Airways Shuttle 64 1h 11m
LHREWR
Newark, US
 United Airlines 63 7h 6m
LHRARN
Stockholm, SE
 Scandinavian Airlines System 58 2h 17m
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