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We ‘d like to see airports such as Heathrow reassess their development plans following the pandemic, but few of them have done much more than dream up new fees for passengers and airlines throughout these last 2 years.
Rachel Bronstein
London’s Heathrow said traveler numbers fell to 19.4 million last year, the lowest given that 1972, as it was struck by COVID-19 travel limitations.
Britain’s most significant airport, which recorded a pretax loss of 1.79 billion pounds ($2.43 billion) for 2021, said on Wednesday that traveler numbers were presently 23% behind forecast but it anticipated a strong summertime for outgoing tourism.
It said it anticipated to satisfy its target of 45.5 million guests this year.
“Need is now beginning to recover and we are working carefully with airlines to scale-up our operations and resume Terminal 4 for the summer travel peak,” stated President John Holland-Kaye.
Heathrow said that while demand for outbound tourist had been improved by the removal of limitations in Britain, incoming tourism and business travel stayed reduced because of testing in other nations.
It said it did not expect travel to return to pre-pandemic levels until all constraints had been eliminated and guests were positive they would not be reimposed.
($1 = 0.7359 pounds) (Reporting by Paul Sandle; modifying by James Davey)
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