The Facts Unknown about Heathrow Airport

There are many travellers who come and stay at hotels near Heathrow Airport. All the hotels offer stunning accommodation and comfort is added with easy commutation to the whole city through various means. The visitors visit the capital city varied reasons and a stay near the airport is often preferred by many of them. However, very few of them actually know the real facts of Heathrow Airport. Here are a few facts unknown about these too frequented destination, so next time you are there do not forget to share these with your fellow travel mates.

• Heathrow is fourth busiest airport in the world with an efficiency to handle 66 million passengers each year. Due to the internationally bound travellers, Heathrow is officially the busiest on earth but if the actual passenger volume is considered, the Hartsfield Jackson Airport is regarded as the busiest.
• The time when there were only two terminals, they were dramatically named as ‘Oceanic’ and ‘Europa’. Subsequently, they got mundane titles as ‘Terminal 1’ and ‘Terminal 2’. Today, there are total 5 terminals which make things easy for the Heathrow passengers and all have their own Heathrow airport parking.
• Though hard to believe, but true is the fact that in the year 1949, Heathrow was merely a tented village and only 18 destinations were linked to it. On the Eve of New Year in 1949, the inaugural flight went from Heathrow to Buenos Aires in Argentina via Lisbon in Portugal. Earlier it was known as London Airport and became Heathrow in 1966.
• Though the flights from Heathrow take passengers all over the world but the most popular destinations are Paris, Dublin, Frankfurt, New York and Amsterdam.
• Heathrow has 72,000 employees out of which 4,500 are BA employees. The number of employees is the same as the number of people living in Scunthorpe.

Booking any of the hotels in London lying close to Heathrow Airport is sure to make your stay in the capital city of London comfortable.