Heathrow airport has recorded its highest ever passenger numbers for the month of June.
Around 6.6 million people passed through Heathrow last month, an increase of 1.1 per cent on June 2013 and a record for the month.
Seats per aircraft increased 0.4 per cent to 203.5, and load factors decreased 0.2 per cent to 80.8 per cent.
Heathrow’s CEO John Holland-Kaye said the results demonstrate the “strategic value” of Heathrow to the world.
“My ambition is to take Heathrow from being one of the best airports in Europe to one of the best in the world and to connect all of Britain to global growth, and to do it sustainably, by expanding Heathrow,” said Holland-Kaye.
In June the new Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal opened, almost 60 years after the original Terminal 2.