London Heathrow Airport, a key global aviation hub, said on Monday it has extended its daily cap on passengers by one month.
that 750 members of its non-operational staff would be volunteering at the airport to help customers.Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesHeathrow said that it expected to serve 54.4 million passengers in 2022
– 9 million more than first forecast in December and putting it at around two-thirds of 2019 levels. The mounting chaos at airports comes amid a huge surge in the number of passengers traveling post-lockdown. Heathrow said that by the end of May it had already surpassed the total number of passengers it served in 2021. More than 6.3 million people flew to and from the airport in July, bringing the annual total so far to 32.4 million, it
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