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 15,400 movements a week, 196 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: about 30 million passengers a year in the early 1980s; Terminal 4 opened 1 April 1986 (adds about a quarter); BAA privatised in 1987; Bermuda II limits US flights from Heathrow to named airlines until 1991. Throughput is an estimate. Capacity raised above the real throughput to carry the traffic the modelled airlines put through this airport (see docs/research/era5-sim-notes.md item 8).