You would be surprised the numbers of UK pax heading to AMS, FRA and CDG rather than trek to LHR.
Not really, but in turn you might be surprised at the number of passengers in Western Europe who head to/from LHR rather than trek to the likes of CDG or other large Western European airports.... I suspect that for the leisure travellers in Europe at least ticket price/getting a good deal trumps other factors...
Canberra97
These people that call LHR a 'hell hole' just make the same statement time and time again without having probably used the airport in recent years.
You may well be right. Due to a combination of circumstances I found myself in T4 recently and didn't recognise the place as the lightless airless box I used to work out of a few years back, as for LHR being a hell hole- as others have said from an infrastructure/facilities POV has certainly improved in recent years and continues to do