Top foreign airlines increase presence at London Heathrow Airport

Lufthansa follows closely with up to 21 daily departures (excluding those operated by Eurowings), while United Airlines operates up to 20 daily flights from Heathrow. Other notable foreign carriers include Aer Lingus (up to 20 daily), SAS (up to 15 daily), SWISS (up to 12 daily), Eurowings (up to 13 daily), Delta Air Lines (up to ten daily), Air Canada (nine daily), and Qatar Airways (up to nine).

If Lufthansa’s wholly owned low-cost subsidiary Eurowings is included together with Lufthansa’s figures, they surpass American Airlines as the top foreign operator at Heathrow.

Air Canada continues to provide unique narrowbody service between Halifax and Heathrow using Boeing 737 MAX aircraft after previously operating via St John’s on Boeing 767-300ERs until March 2019. The current nonstop Halifax-Heathrow route stands out as Air Canada’s only remaining daytime Europe-bound flight due to factors such as short duration and point-to-point demand.

Among all non-UK airlines at Heathrow, Tunisair has become the least frequent operator with just one weekly A320neo departure on Tuesdays—a reduction attributed partly to a shift toward serving London Gatwick instead.

Capital Airlines and Uzbekistan Airways each operate twice-weekly services from Qingdao and Tashkent respectively; both also serve Gatwick alongside their limited presence at Heathrow.

Heathrow Airport continues as a key hub for international air travel with strong participation from foreign carriers amid ongoing changes in route offerings and frequencies.