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LONDON, April 29 — London’s Heathrow Airport said today that Covid-induced losses have hit £2.4 billion (RM13.5 billion) since the start of the pandemic last year. Despite remaining one of the world’s largest airports, Heathrow was last year overtaken by Paris Charles de Gaulle as Europe’s...

File picture of London Heathrow airport Terminal Five. — AFP picLONDON, April 29 — London’s Heathrow Airport said today that Covid-induced losses have hit £2.4 billion since the start of the pandemic last year.

The airport, which has been savaged by the collapse in international air travel, revealed the extent of the damage from the pandemic after posting a loss of £329 million for the three months of this year. “These results show how Covid has devastated the aviation sector and British trade,” said Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to exit England’s lockdown does not however anticipate a return to international air travel until May 17 at the earliest.

 

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