
London Heathrow Airport will close one of its two runways following a 90 per cent drop in traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Innovations include contactless lounge entry screens, which BA says allows passengers to "scan their own boarding pass when entering".

British transport secretary Grant Shapps has indicated that countries with low Covid-19 infection rates may be exempted from quarantine measures set to go into effect in the UK over the coming weeks.

Passengers entering the United Kingdom will likely be subject to a 14-day quarantine period under new laws being drafted up in Westminster.

The chief executive of London’s Heathrow Airport has called for the introduction of global standards of passenger health checks.

London Heathrow Airport’s bid to build a third runway appears to finally be over – more than ten years after the government gave it the go-head.