With 1.8 million passengers in a single week for three weeks starting July 8, Heathrow topped the charts as the premier holiday take-off spot, with Venice and Larnaca being hot-ticket destinations ...

While take-offs and landings at Heathrow have been flat for decades, European rivals like Amsterdam’s six-runway Schiphol Airport have caught up (see chart). So have airports in Turkey and the Gulf.

London’s Heathrow Airport shut down because of a power outage from a large fire nearby, causing massive disruption at one of the world’s busiest travel hubs. The disruption is causing havoc ...