Probably via DRW as it is the shortest route, more or less the same than the shortest route via Asia, HKG, which is virtually on the great circle route (shown as just 2mi longer on GC mapper) and there is already a flight via PER. Unlikely to work on a permanent commercial basis hence PER is used.

Tasman routes
 

The QF Oz routes were the Kangaroo route from LHR going East calling at all stations (lol)

There was the Coral route East across the Pacific, the USA and to LHR - TEAL did this one.

and the QF Fiesta Route via Mexico was it??

And the passenger figures would probably be even more depressing.

I have just seen yesterday figures from two German airports where passenger number were just 2 per cent and 0.2 per cent of the same day one year before....

Single ops next week
 

Heathrow moving to single runway ops on 6th April.
Quote "A temporary measure due to the unprecedented circumstances, reduction in flights etc.
Alternating weekly, and alternation on easterly ops, something we can't currently provide during our usual schedule"

Reports on the web that not only is T4 to close temporarily, but T3 may also be mothballed as well
Anyone able to confirm if this is definitely true ?

I hope not - that's my least favourite smell.

From the Heathrow Airport website

London Heathrow - Arrivals March 2020

Sunday 1
638

Monday 2
634

Tuesday 3
627

Wednesday 4
631

Thursday 5
617

Friday 6
629

Saturday 7
551

Sunday 8
615

Monday 9
602

Tuesday 10
583

Wednesday 11
554

Thursday 12
590

Friday 13
589

Saturday 14
529

Sunday 15
567

Monday 16
518

Tuesday 17
441

Wednesday 18
354

Thursday 19
366

Friday 20
326

Saturday 21
279

Sunday 22
277

Monday 23
225

Tuesday 24
194

Wednesday 25
183

Thursday 26
203

Friday 27
201

Saturday 28
173

Sunday 29
173

Monday 30
126

Tuesday 31
120

Total

13,115

And for April, so far, running at around 100 arrivals per day.

Quite strange to see 09L departures today - watched a BA787 fly straight out over London on the runway heading, also seen a few unusual (visual?) approaches - interesting times.

Up to now, 09L departures weren't completely unknown - there were an average of 2-3 per week last year - but they were almost all late at night, so hard to spot.

Now we'll see them during daylight, though on average around 85% of all departures will still be on westerlies or on 09R.

Having moved to single runway ops, are they now doing cleaning and maintenance on 09R?

Runway maintenance is usually done during nighttime SRO, so I would assume that it's now being done during the day.

Monday will see the southern runway used instead, probably on westerly operations.

BBC Weather Forecast suggests a moderate NE breeze on Monday and an easterly drift for most of the week

Yes, I should never try to forecast the wind direction. :O

If UK is officially under lockdown, why the hell are there so many flights still arriving/departing out of Heathrow? Surely, this cannot be helping in containing the virus? Your thoughts?

Cargo, including passenger aircraft used solely for cargo, as well as repatriation flights perhaps?

they asked the Chief Medical Officer this on one of the recent afternoon Briefings.

He said the virus is here, it's been here for a couple of months, it's all over the UK. You're not going to catch it from some guy from New York, you're going to catch it from your mates, your family or the guy next door.

Stopping flights will have zero effect

Is this the same Chief Medical Officer who thought herd immunity was a good idea? If stopping flights will have zero effect, why don't they just tell all UK based airlines to start flying again? Considering the UK will probably end up with the 2nd highest death rate in the world, is he really sure what he's talking about? One more infected person who could infect multiple others is one to many in my opinion.

That's partly true.

But that doesn't explain, for example, continuing services on UK domestic routes connecting LHR to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, etc.