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HEATHROW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 1 3 4 5 MAPS
LHR INFORMATION AND AIRPORT GUIDE

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Heathrow International Airport UK LHR Maps, Information and Transportation Methods - Airline Reference and Facts

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Heathrow Airport Terminals Map

Heathrow is located in 12 NM west of central London, near the southern end of the London Borough of Hillingdon. The airport stands on a parcel of land that was designated part of the London Metropolitan Green Belt. To the north, the airport is surrounded by the built-up areas of Harlington, Harmondsworth, Longford and Cranford. To the east are Hounslow and Hatton, and to the south are East Bedfont and Stanwell. To the west, the M25 motorway separates the airport from Colnbrook in Berkshire.

The airport's location to the west of London, and the east-west orientation of its runways, means that airliners usually approach to land directly over the city. Other leading European airports, such as those at Madrid, Frankfurt and Paris, are located north or south of their cities, to minimise the overflying problem. Another disadvantage of the site is that it is low-lying, at 83 feet (25 m) above sea level, and can be prone to fog.

Heathrow is one of seven airports serving the London area, along with Biggin Hill, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Southend and City although only Heathrow, Biggin Hill and City Airports are located within Greater London.

Heathrow today

Heathrow Airport is used by over 90 airlines which fly to 170 destinations worldwide. The airport is the primary hub of BMI, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

London Heathrow Terminal 1 Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Arrivals
Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Arrivals Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Arrivals Ground Floor Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Arrivals Ground Floor Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Check-In Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 Check-In Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 International Departures Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 International Departures Map

Terminal 1 was opened in 1968 and was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 1969. In 2005, a substantial redesign and redevelopment of the terminal was completed, which saw the opening of the new Eastern Extension, doubling the departure lounge in size and creating additional seating and retail space. The terminal has an area of 74,601m2. It is home to Heathrow's second largest carrier, bmi, and airlines belonging to the Star Alliance. It is set to be closed and demolished around 2013/14 to enable the construction of the second phase of the new Terminal 2, scheduled for completion in 2019.

London Heathrow Terminal 3 Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals Ground Floor Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals Ground Floor Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Check In Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Check In Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Departures Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Departures Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Departures Ground Floor Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 Departures Ground Floor Map

Terminal 3 was opened as The Oceanic Terminal on 13 November 1961 to handle flight departures for long-haul routes. At this time the airport had a direct helicopter service to Central London from the gardens on the roof of the terminal building. The Oceanic Terminal was renamed as Terminal 3 in 1968 and was expanded in 1970 with the addition of an arrivals building. Other facilities were also added, including the UK's first moving walkways. In 2006, the new £105 million Pier 6 was completed in order to accommodate the Airbus A380 superjumbo; Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Qantas now operate regular flights from Terminal 3 using the Airbus A380. Terminal 3 has an area of 98, 962m2. Redevelopment of Terminal 3's forecourt by the addition of a new four lane drop-off area and a large pedestrianised plaza, complete with canopy to the front of the terminal building was completed in 2007; these improvements were intended to improve passengers' experiences, reduce traffic congestion and improve security. As part of this project, Virgin Atlantic were assigned their own dedicated check-in area, known as 'Zone A', which features a large sculpture and atrium. BAA also have plans for a £1bn upgrade of the rest of the terminal over the next ten years which includes the renovation of aircraft piers and the arrivals forecourt. A new baggage system which connects to Terminal 5 (for British Airways connections) is currently under construction. In addition to the baggage system, the baggage claim hall is also set to undergo changes with dedicated A380 belts and hope of improving design and layout of the area.

London Heathrow Terminal 4 Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Arrivals Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Arrivals Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Arrivals Ground Floor Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Arrivals Ground Floor Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Check In Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Check In Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Departures Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 Departures Map

First opened in 1986, Terminal 4 is situated to the south of the southern runway next to the cargo terminal, and is connected to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 by the Heathrow Cargo Tunnel. The terminal has an area of 105,481m2. Now home to the SkyTeam alliance as well as some unaffiliated carriers, it has recently undergone a £200m upgrade to enable it to accommodate 45 airlines. The forecourt has been upgraded to reduce traffic congestion and improve security. An extended check-in area and renovated piers and departure lounges have been delivered, two new stands to accommodate the Airbus A380 have been constructed, and a new baggage system has been installed.

London Heathrow Terminal 5 Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Arrivals Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Arrivals Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Departures Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Departures Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Gate Level Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Gate Level Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5B Gates 32-48 Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5B Gates 32-48 Map

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5C Gates 52-66 Map
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5C Gates 52-66 Map

Terminal 5 is situated between the northern and southern runways at the western end of the Heathrow site, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 14 March 2008, some nineteen years after its inception. It opened for passenger use on 27 March 2008. The first passenger to enter Terminal 5 was Paul Walker, a UK ex-pat from Kenya who entered through security at 04:30 on 27 March 2008 and was presented with a boarding pass by the British Airways CEO Willie Walsh for the first departing flight, BA302 to Paris. The first two weeks of the terminal's operation were disrupted by a number of problems with the terminal's IT systems, coupled with insufficient testing and staff training, which caused over 500 flights to be cancelled. Terminal 5 is exclusively used by British Airways as their global hub.

Built at a cost of £4.3 billion, the new terminal consists of a four storey main terminal building (Concourse A) and two satellite buildings linked to the main terminal by an underground people mover transit system. The first satellite (Concourse B) includes dedicated aircraft stands for the Airbus A380; Concourse C is currently under construction and scheduled to open in early 2011. Terminal 5 has an area of 353,020m2 (Concourses A and B combined). It has 60 aircraft stands and capacity for 30 million passengers annually. There are more than 100 shops and restaurants. A further building, similar in size to Concourse C, may yet be constructed to the East of the existing site, providing another 16 stands. This is likely to become a priority if British Airways' merger with Iberia proceeds, since both airlines will want to be accommodated at Heathrow under one roof in order to maximise the cost savings that the merger envisages.

The transport network around the airport has been extended to cope with the increase in passenger numbers. A dedicated motorway spur has been built from the M25 between junctions 14 and 15 to the terminal, which includes a 3,800 space multi-storey car park. A more distant long-stay car park for business passengers will be linked to the terminal by a personal rapid transit system, which will become operational in late Spring 2010. New branches of both the Heathrow Express and the Underground's Piccadilly Line serve a new shared Heathrow Terminal 5 station

AIRLINES THAT SERVE HEATHROW AIRPORT

Aegean Airlines Athens 1
Aer Lingus Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, Shannon 1
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 4
Air Algérie Algiers 4
Air Astana Almaty 4
Air Canada Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montréal-Trudeau, Ottawa, St. John's, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver 3
Air China Beijing-Capital 3
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 4
Air France operated by Airlinair Paris-Charles de Gaulle [seasonal] 4
Air India Amritsar, Delhi, Mumbai, Toronto-Pearson 3
Air Malta Malta 4
Air Mauritius Mauritius 3
Air New Zealand Auckland, Hong Kong, Los Angeles 1
Air Seychelles Mahé 4
Air Transat Toronto-Pearson [seasonal] 4
Alitalia Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino 4
All Nippon Airways Tokyo-Narita 3
American Airlines Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, Raleigh/Durham 3
Arik Air Abuja, Lagos 4
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 1
Atlas Blue Tangier 4
Austrian Airlines Vienna 1
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways Vienna 1
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 4
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Dhaka, Dubai 4
Blue1 Helsinki 3
BMI 1
BMI Regional Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Hanover, Manchester 1
British Airways 5
Brussels Airlines Brussels 1
Bulgaria Air Sofia 4
Cathay Pacific Airways Hong Kong 3
China Airlines Taipei-Taoyuan 4
China Eastern Airlines Shanghai-Pudong 4
Continental Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Newark 4
Croatia Airlines Split, Zagreb 1
Cyprus Airways Larnaca, Paphos 1
Cyprus Turkish Airlines Izmir 3
Czech Airlines Prague 4
Delta Air Lines Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK 4
EgyptAir Cairo, Luxor 3
El Al Tel Aviv 1
Emirates Dubai 3
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa 3
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 4
EVA Air Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Taipei-Taoyuan 3
Finnair Helsinki 3
Gulf Air Bahrain 4
Iberia Airlines Madrid 3
Icelandair Reykjavik-Keflavík 1
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Shiraz [begins 5 June; seasonal] 3
Japan Airlines Tokyo-Narita 3
Jat Airways Belgrade 4
Jet Airways Delhi, Mumbai 4
Kenya Airways Nairobi 4
Kingfisher Airlines Delhi, Mumbai 4
KLM Amsterdam 4
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper Amsterdam 4
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon 4
Kuwait Airways Kuwait, New York-JFK 4
Libyan Airlines Tripoli 4
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw 1
Lufthansa Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Milan-Malpensa, Munich 1
Lufthansa operated by BMI Cologne-Bonn, Dresden, Hamburg, Milan-Malpensa 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air Stuttgart 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings Düsseldorf, Stuttgart 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Stuttgart 1
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur 4
Middle East Airlines Beirut 3
Olympic Air Athens, Thessaloniki [begins 31 October] 4
Oman Air Muscat 3
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Sialkot 3
Qantas Airways Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney 3
Qatar Airways Doha 3
Rossiya St Petersburg 4
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca 4
Royal Brunei Airlines Bandar Seri Begawan, Dubai 4
Royal Jordanian Amman 3
Saudi Arabian Airlines Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh 3
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda 3
Singapore Airlines Singapore 3
South African Airways Cape Town, Johannesburg 1
SriLankan Airlines Colombo, Malé 4
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich 1
Syrian Air Damascus 4
TAM Airlines São Paulo-Guarulhos, Rio de Janeiro (from August 9th), Brasilia (from November 2nd) 1
TAP Portugal Lisbon 1
TAROM Bucharest-Otopeni 4
Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 3
Transaero Moscow-Domodedovo 1
Tunisair Tunis 4
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 3
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat 3
United Airlines Chicago-O'Hare, Denver [seasonal], Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington-Dulles 1
US Airways Philadelphia 1
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent 4
Virgin Atlantic Airways Accra, Boston, Cape Town [seasonal], Chicago-O'Hare [seasonal], Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lagos, Los Angeles, Miami, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newark, San Francisco, Shanghai-Pudong, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Washington-Dulles 3
Vueling Airlines A Coruña, Bilbao, Seville 3

Terminal rearrangements

Following the opening of Terminal 5 in March 2008, a hugely complex programme of terminal moves has been implemented. This has seen many airlines moved so as to be grouped in terminals by airline alliance as far as possible:

* Terminal 1: Star Alliance - plus Aer Lingus, El Al, Icelandair and Transaero
* Terminal 3: Oneworld - plus several non-aligned airlines (Air India, Air Mauritius, Cyprus Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Ethiopian, Eva Air, Iran Air, MEA, Oman Air, PIA, Qatar Airways, Saudia, Turkmenistan Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Vueling) and Star Alliance members not based in Terminals 1 or 4
* Terminal 4: SkyTeam - plus Continental Airlines and all other non-aligned airlines
* Terminal 5: British Airways

Traffic and statistics

BAA claim that Heathrow is the "world's busiest international airport", but it is only the world's second-busiest by total passenger traffic, after Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson, which is also an international airport. However, Heathrow does have the highest number of international passengers.

Heathrow Express: a non-stop service directly to London's Paddington station; trains leave every 15 minutes for the 15 minute journey, either from Heathrow Terminal 5 station or Heathrow Central station (Terminals 1, 2, 3).
Heathrow Connect: a service to Paddington calling at up to five National Rail stations en route - trains leave every 30 minutes for the 25-minute journey. Heathrow Connect services use Heathrow Central station (Terminals 1, 2, 3) and terminate at Terminal 4.
London Underground Piccadilly line: four tube stations serve the airport - Terminals 1, 2, 3; Terminal 4; Terminal 5 serve the passenger terminals, and Hatton Cross serves the maintenance areas. The standard journey time from the Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 tube station to Central London is 40–50 minutes.

Bus and coach

Many buses and coaches operate from the large Heathrow airport central bus station serving Terminals 1, 2 and 3, and also from bus stations at Terminals 4 and 5. Services include the following:

* Long-distance coach services operated by National Express and Oxford Bus Company to various parts of the UK, including Victoria Coach Station in London
* A door-to-door London hotel shuttle bus service is operated by Dot2Dot from each terminal, and HotelHoppa buses connect each terminal with hotels in the Heathrow area
* There are two RailAir coach services connecting nearby railway stations with the airport using dedicated non-stop coaches and running to: o Reading railway station, connecting with railway services to the West Country, South Wales, Midlands and the south coast of England
o Woking railway station, for places in Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire
o A connection to Feltham railway station, for Richmond, Camberley, Bracknell, London Waterloo and Clapham Junction, using London Buses route 285 (route 490 from Terminals 4 and 5)
* Express bus services to Watford, St Albans and Harlow (Green Line route 724), Croydon (London Buses route X26) and High Wycombe (Carousel Buses)
* Local bus services by London Buses, First Berkshire & The Thames Valley and other companies to nearby towns and London suburbs
* Night bus N9 operates to central London at night when the trains do not operate

Between 1981 and 2004 the airport was linked to central London by a group of routes known as Airbus. These routes carried A prefixes before their numbers; one route, A10, operates with such a number to Uxbridge.

Inter-terminal transport

Terminals 1, 2 and 3 are within walking distance of each other. Transport to Terminal 4 is by Heathrow Connect trains or bus and to Terminal 5 is by Heathrow Express trains or bus. On Heathrow Express, Heathrow Connect and local buses (but not on the London Underground) the sections between Heathrow Central, Terminal 4 and Terminal 5 are free of charge.

ULTra Personal Rapid Transport is currently being constructed as a trial shuttling passengers to and from Terminal 5. The initial trial will have 18 pods running. ULTra are small transportation pods that can fit four adults, two children, and their luggage and will be able to carry passengers directly to the terminal. The pods are battery powered and will be initially used on a four kilometre track. If the trial is successful there are plans for a roll out airport wide.

Taxis
Taxis are available at all terminals.

Car
Heathrow is accessible via the nearby M4 motorway and A4 road (Terminals 1–3), the M25 motorway (Terminals 4 and 5), and the A30 road (Terminal 4). There are drop off and pick up areas at all terminals and short and long stay multi-storey car parks. Additionally, there are car parks (not run by BAA) just outside the airport; these are connected to the terminals by shuttle buses.

Four parallel tunnels under one of the runways connect the M4 motorway and the A4 road to Terminals 1–3. The two larger tunnels are each two lanes wide and are used for motorised traffic. The two smaller tunnels were originally reserved for pedestrians and bicycles; to increase traffic capacity the cycle lanes have been modified to each take a single lane of cars, although bicycles still have priority over cars. Pedestrian access to the smaller tunnels has been discontinued, with the free bus services being the alternative.

Bicycle
There are (mainly off-road) bicycle routes to some of the terminals. Free bicycle parking places are available in car parks 1 and 1A, at Terminal 4, and to the North and South of Terminal 5's Interchange Plaza.

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INTERIOR VIEW OF HEATHROW AIRPORT


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