London Heathrow
London, GB.
- Code
- LHR
- Position
- 51.477, -0.461
- Runway
- 3,353 m paved from 1945, 3,902 m paved from 1970
- Capacity
- About 14,916 movements a week, 204 stands, terminal generation 3
- Weather
- Worst month loses about 1.9% of flights
- Confidence
- estimated (to be verified). Coordinates agree with published sources to within about 2.5 km. Other figures are estimates unless the evidence below says otherwise.
Source: Heathrow article: Terminal 1 6 November 1968; longest runway 3,902 m from 1970 (Era 3); Terminal 4 not until 1986; Bermuda II gateway for British Airways, Pan Am and TWA only. Throughput is an estimate (about 20 million a year in 1976). Capacity raised above the real throughput to carry the traffic the modelled airlines put through this airport (see docs/research/era4-sim-notes.md).