{"id":552,"date":"2026-05-11T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:40:35","slug":"heathrow-passenger-numbers-dip-as-demand-for-international-travel-ebbs-amid-iran-war-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow passenger numbers dip as demand for international travel ebbs amid Iran war fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airport reports 5% decline but transit passenger business rises as fliers use hub to avoid Middle East airports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/uk-economy-job-losses-iran-war-oil-pound-bonds-politics-starmer-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 news updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The number of passengers flying from London Heathrow fell last month, as war in the Middle East weighed on demand for international travel.<\/p>\n<p>About 6.7 million people flew through the airport in April, a 5% drop compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/may\/11\/heathrow-passenger-numbers-dip-as-demand-for-international-travel-ebbs-amid-iran-war-fallout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport reports 5% decline but transit passenger business rises as fliers use hub to avoid Middle East airports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}