Although Heathrow is Britain’s largest air hub, it has fallen out of the rankings of the world’s best-connected airports.

Although Heathrow is the fourth busiest airport in the world, it has fallen to twelfth place in the world in terms of the number of different connections.

A new survey by aviation analyst Cirium found that over Last year Heathrow had connections to 221 locations in the world. Unlike Istanbul, the best connected airport in the world, the Flights to 309 different destinations – This is because Turkish Airlines has the densest flight network in the world.

London Gatwick, which handles about half as many passengers as Heathrow, is just two places behind its west London rival, ranking 14th on the global list and serving 218 destinations.

Second and third place went to Frankfurt (296 destinations) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (282). Fourth place is shared by Amsterdam and Chicago O’Hare with 270 destinations. You can read about all the airports in the study here.

Although LHR was busier than any other hub last year, with more than 79 million passengers, it couldn’t keep up with the variety of destinations. On a positive note, however, the west London airport is doing much better than it did before the pandemic, when it was ranked only 18th in the world.

London Heathrow at Time Out

LHR is the capital’s (and the UK’s) biggest airport – and news about the transport hub affects all Londoners. Recently, we reported at Time Out that Heathrow had been named one of the world’s best airports, that it had become the world’s fourth busiest, and that the west London airport could get much, much bigger planes.

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