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Bloomberg
London’s Heathrow airport lifted its full-year passenger forecast, citing updated information on schedules and bookings and the limited impact of capacity caps imposed to boost resilience as travel rebounds.
The UK hub now expects to attract 54.4 million passenger in 2022, versus a forecast for 52.8 million travellers issued on April 26, it said in a statement. The revised target equates to 67% of the customer tally for 2019.
Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport prior to the pandemic, has seen a slower return of passengers than many smaller hubs with the long-haul markets in which it specialises held back by sluggish corporate demand and lingering travel curbs in Asia. It said there’s still uncertainty over 2022 figures, which could range from 57% of the pre-pandemic tally to 77%.