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Emirates are operating a single odd day flight with inbound passengers ONLY. All others are freight with passenger aircraft and all outbound Nil passengers at the moment.
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a vary limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carry passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a vary limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carry passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
https://lhrmovements.********.com/
Which is a couple of weeks behind - but catching up !

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Daily records on my LHR Blog
https://lhrmovements.********.com/
Which is a couple of weeks behind - but catching up !
https://lhrmovements.********.com/
Which is a couple of weeks behind - but catching up !
All still a long way off normality though.

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This is correct, the passenger flights appear on the flights departures/arrivals pages, the cargo flights, even the ones using passenger BAU flt nos, do not. United have just recently reintroduced ORD from a cargo only service alongside EWR which didn’t stop.

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Emirates are operating a single odd day flight with inbound passengers ONLY. All others are freight with passenger aircraft and all outbound Nil passengers at the moment.
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a very limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carrying passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
And lets just get real an airport the size and importance of Heathrow to the national economy 15,000 is an exceptionally small amount - To use metaphor it equates to somewhere like Liverpools typical traffic levels.
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a very limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carrying passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
And lets just get real an airport the size and importance of Heathrow to the national economy 15,000 is an exceptionally small amount - To use metaphor it equates to somewhere like Liverpools typical traffic levels.
BA operated at least 5 US flights with passengers on today and have been doing daily. LAX BOS IAD ORD and JFK all the other US flights are freighters. NBO SIN PVG PEK TLV one of the HKGs all freighters. EZE ATQ and LOS positioned as repatriation flights.

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Where do you get your info from? As far as I know all BA USA flights are cargo only. They retain their Pax flight numbers but the cabins are filled with cargo. Have you a source for the Pax numbers you refer to?

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I was working on one of the flights today. Some flights to the US are carrying passengers US citizens or US residents only.



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Emirates are operating a single odd day flight with inbound passengers ONLY. All others are freight with passenger aircraft and all outbound Nil passengers at the moment.
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a very limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carrying passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
And lets just get real an airport the size and importance of Heathrow to the national economy 15,000 is an exceptionally small amount - To use metaphor it equates to somewhere like Liverpools typical traffic levels.
Yes BA/IB/EI are operating a very limited scheduled of close EU and one or two Domestics .
No US flights are carrying passengers period
El-AL are operating a very ad-hoc service primarily freight however there is some traffic (Israelis ) back to Tel- Aviv - subject to very strict 14 day self isolation on entry
THY- Turkish are ALL freight on passenger aircraft
And lets just get real an airport the size and importance of Heathrow to the national economy 15,000 is an exceptionally small amount - To use metaphor it equates to somewhere like Liverpools typical traffic levels.
US carriers are also carrying fare paying pax, but of course only US Citizens or alien residents due current legislation.
All US carriers are currently selling seats for their UK flights, albeit limited and costly in some cases.
15K is a small amount but the 'public' seem to be under some misapprehension that flights have stopped altogether.

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Today between 5am and 11.30am I saw 52 flights going into LHR, they all seemed to be passenger aircraft, surely they cannot all be repatriation, cargo flights ? Or is this a sign that air travel is trying to re-start. By comparison my local airport Edinburgh (nothing compared to Heathrow in size or capacity I admit) only saw 3 passenger flights ! during the same time period
They were:-
BA..... JFK x3, Washington, Nairobi, Chicago x3, Miami, Toronto, LAX, Atlanta, San Fransisco, Dallas, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Aberdeen
Aegean..... Athens
Aer Lingus.... Belfast, Dublin
Air Canada.... Toronto x2, Vancouver
Air China..... Shanghai
Air India.... Delhi
Air Malta.....Luqa
Alitalia.....Rome
American Airlines.....Dallas, Miami
Cathay Pacific.... Hong Kong
ELAL......Tel Aviv
Emirates..... Dubai
Etihad.....Abu Dhabi
Eurowings.... Dusseldorf
Finnair.... Helsinki
Gulf Air..... Bahrain
KLM..... Amsterdam
Lufthansa.....Frankfurt
Qatar..... Doha x3
Swiss... Zurich
THY....Istanbul
United..... JFK, Chicago x2
Virgin..... JFK x3
They were:-
BA..... JFK x3, Washington, Nairobi, Chicago x3, Miami, Toronto, LAX, Atlanta, San Fransisco, Dallas, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Aberdeen
Aegean..... Athens
Aer Lingus.... Belfast, Dublin
Air Canada.... Toronto x2, Vancouver
Air China..... Shanghai
Air India.... Delhi
Air Malta.....Luqa
Alitalia.....Rome
American Airlines.....Dallas, Miami
Cathay Pacific.... Hong Kong
ELAL......Tel Aviv
Emirates..... Dubai
Etihad.....Abu Dhabi
Eurowings.... Dusseldorf
Finnair.... Helsinki
Gulf Air..... Bahrain
KLM..... Amsterdam
Lufthansa.....Frankfurt
Qatar..... Doha x3
Swiss... Zurich
THY....Istanbul
United..... JFK, Chicago x2
Virgin..... JFK x3

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What disadvantages would it have brought to airlines or anyone else if the LHR curfew were extended to 07:00 while the airport is so little used? Is it just they don't want residents of West London to get used to sleeping with the windows open?


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For example, the first arrivals this morning were from Hong Kong and Singapore. BA032 is due to depart HKG at 23:10 local time and arrive at LHR 04:50 (it landed just after 04:30).
Delaying the arrival of such flights at LHR by 1-2 hours would obviously necessitate delaying the departure from HKG/SIN/KUL/etc by a similar amount, which the airlines argue would be commercially unacceptable (and might also infringe night restrictions at some originating airports).
So that's why West London (and Windsor) residents continue to be woken from 04:30 onwards.

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Except that flights from HKG & SIN also arrive around 18:00 in normal times, and with 0-2 flights per day, and (I guess) without passengers, it shouldn't matter if they choose those arrival times rather than the crack of dawn.

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Looking at their timetables for this time last year:
VS207 HKG-LHR STA 04:30
BA032 HKG-LHR STA 04:50
BA016 SIN-LHR STA 05:05
BA028 HKG-LHR STA 05:30
BA012 SIN-LHR STA 05:50
Though VS does currently have an ad-hoc arrival from HKG at around 14:00 some days.

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Am I reading this right, is Westjet applying for 56 slots at LHR ?
https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...Report-NEW.pdf
https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...Report-NEW.pdf
