STATISTICALLY FINE. EST. 40,000 FT
AIRPORTS → LHR

LHR

London Heathrow Airport
London, United Kingdom · EGLL
CHANCE YOU STEP OFF ANY BOARDING SAFELY
99.999993%
This is the worldwide figure, not LHR's. We do not have a sourced fatal-accident rate for London Heathrow Airport, so we do not print one — London runs on the same global safety system as everywhere else, and that system is what the number measures.
FLIGHTS / YEAR
38.7M
DEATH RISK
1 / 13.7M boardings
SOURCE: MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT, 2024 (opens in a new window) HOW THIS NUMBER IS DERIVED
AIRPORT FACTS
IATA / ICAOLHR / EGLL
CityLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom
Airport classLarge airport
Runways2
Longest runway3,901 m (12,799 ft)
Coordinates51.471, -0.46
Its longest runway beats 96% of the 3,254 commercial airports listed on this site. Runway figures from OurAirports (opens in a new window), public domain.
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We don't know which airlines or aircraft actually serve LHR — that data isn't wired in yet. These search the full sourced directories.

EXAMPLE FLIGHTS — NOT LHR DEPARTURES

ALL FLIGHTS →
BA 249 LHR → GIG · 787-9 SAFE ✓ UA 92 EWR → LIS · 767-300 SAFE ✓ AA 100 JFK → LHR · 777-300ER SAFE ✓ JL 44 HND → SYD · A350-900 SAFE ✓
These are example flights from elsewhere on the site, not real LHR arrivals. Live per-airport schedules wire in with a flight-data API.
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