Heathrow, Manchester and Stansted airports reveal busiest-ever July

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A total of 7.98 million passengers passed through London Heathrow in July, representing 238 travellers per minute. Heathrow – the busiest airport in Europe – saw six of its busiest-ever departure days in the week many schools broke up for the summer holiday, from 22 July. Heathrow’s two busiest routes, to New York JFK and Dubai, were joined by Doha and Dublin as the latest routes with one million passengers travelling to and from Heathrow this year. The airport’s chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, said: “In July, we were smashing a passenger record almost every single day and we’re chasing down our never before seen goal of serving eight million passengers in a single month.” The eight million figure might have been achieved were it not for what Heathrow says is the impact of a “devastating” decision to make transit passengers obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation to fly through Heathrow.