London Heathrow Airport has announced the results of a study indicating that the construction of a third runway would make it possible to establish new domestic routes within the United Kingdom.
The study was conducted by Frontier Economics. It forecasts that, if the airport’s expansion is realized, there is a strong likelihood that flights from five airports — Belfast, Cornwall, Leeds, Liverpool, and Teesside — could be newly launched to Heathrow.
Heathrow Airport has been operating at close to its maximum slot capacity for almost the past 20 years, and airlines have prioritized using the limited slots for international services rather than domestic ones. As a result, when traveling overseas from regional cities in the UK, it has become common to connect via overseas airports other than Heathrow.
If these five routes were to be launched with five round trips per week, the additional tourism expenditure is expected to reach approximately GBP 335 million, creating thousands of new jobs. Currently, around 5 million passengers are expected to use the 13 domestic routes to and from Heathrow in 2025, supporting an estimated GBP 1.2 billion in tourism spending.
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