The disruption is expected to continue until the end of Tuesday.

Broken rail and shortage of signalling staff cause major disruption to trains

This follows a summer of strong demand, with 30.7 million passengers passing through the airport’s terminals between June and September.

Heathrow Airport expects to handle record 83.8m passengers in 2024

Abbas Chamseddin with his wife Sana and their two sons Zien and Jawad (in buggy) at Heathrow Airport after they flew in from Beirut. Sana spoke of her guilt at escaping besieged Lebanon and leaving behind loved ones in "unsafe places". Her uncle, his wife and his three daughters, all in their twenties, were killed when their home in the Lebanese city of Tyre was bombed by the Israel Defence Forces. Picture date: Saturday September 28, 2024.

Sana Chamseddin clutched her son in her arms in Heathrow Airport and spoke of her guilt at escaping Lebanon and leaving behind loved ones.

'Israeli strikes killed five members of my family', says mother returning to UK

The amount of cannabis seized in the UK so far this year is three times more than the whole of 2023

Eleven people charged with attempting to smuggle 300 kilograms of cannabis

The drugs were found over the space of two days hidden in suitcases and luggage. 

More than 300 kilos of cannabis seized at Heathrow and Gatwick

Officials seized the drugs after arresting eleven suspects on Saturday and Sunday.

300kg of cannabis seized at Heathrow and Gatwick Airports

Airbus Beluga made its way from Toulouse in France following an incident that took place in April.

Why did this unusual Airbus make a rare UK stop?

Just Stop Oil protesters Phoebe Plummer (left), 22, and Jane Touil

The protest happened inside Terminal 5 on Tuesday morning.

Just Stop Oil activists arrested after paint sprayed on Heathrow departure board

A record 39.8 million passengers travelled through its terminals between January and June.

Airport hits record passenger numbers in first half of year

Heathrow says thanks to swift action from the police and airport staff, there is no disruption to passenger journeys.

Nine Just Stop Oil activists arrested at Heathrow Airport

The RAC, which conducted the study, said some charges are ‘bordering on the ridiculous’.

More than third of major airports have raised drop-off fees, research shows

The High Court heard that the airport was a ‘clear and obvious target for planned disruptive action’.