Editing Heathrow Airport (section)

===Facilities===
Heathrow Airport is used by over 89 airlines flying to 214 destinations in 84 countries. The airport is the primary [[Airline hub|hub]] of [[British Airways]] and is a base for [[Virgin Atlantic]]. It has four passenger terminals (numbered 2 to 5) and a cargo terminal. In 2021 Heathrow served 19.4 million passengers, of which 17 million were international and 2.4 million domestic. The busiest year ever recorded was 2019 when 80.9 million passengers travelled through the airport. Heathrow is the UK's largest port by value with a network of over 218 destinations worldwide. The busiest single destination in passenger numbers is New York, with over three{{nbsp}}million passengers flying between Heathrow and JFK Airport in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=International Air Passenger Traffic To and From Reporting Airports for 2013 |url=http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/80/airport_data/2013Annual/Table_12_1_Intl_Air_Pax_Route_Analysis_2013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704161033/https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/80/airport_data/2013Annual/Table_12_1_Intl_Air_Pax_Route_Analysis_2013.pdf |archive-date=4 July 2015 |access-date=12 February 2015 |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority |page=68}}</ref>

In the 1950s, Heathrow had six runways, arranged in three pairs at different angles in the shape of a [[hexagram]] with the permanent passenger terminal in the middle and the older terminal along the north edge of the field; two of its runways would always be within 30° of the wind direction. As the required length for runways has grown, Heathrow now has only two parallel runways running east–west. These are extended versions of the two east–west runways from the original hexagram. From the air, almost all of the original runways can still be seen, incorporated into the present system of taxiways. 

North of the northern runway and the former taxiway and aprons, now the site of extensive car parks, is the entrance to the access tunnel and the site of Heathrow's unofficial "[[gate guardian]]". For many years the home of a 40% scale model of a British Airways [[Concorde]], G-CONC; the site has been occupied by a model of an Emirates [[Airbus A380]] since 2008.<ref>{{cite news |date=30 March 2007 |title=Heathrow Concorde model removed |newspaper=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6509667.stm |access-date=23 March 2018 |archive-date=16 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316023144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6509667.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
Heathrow Airport has [[Church of England|Anglican]], [[Catholic]], [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|Free Church]], [[Hinduism|Hindu]], [[Jewish]], [[Muslim]] and [[Sikhism|Sikh]] chaplains. There is a [[multi-faith prayer room]] and counselling room in each terminal, in addition to [[St George's Interdenominational Chapel, Heathrow Airport|St. George's Interdenominational Chapel]] in an underground vault adjacent to the old control tower, where Christian services take place. The chaplains organise and lead prayers at certain times in the prayer room.<ref>{{cite web |title=Multi faith prayer rooms |url=https://www.heathrow.com/airport-guide/terminal-facilities-and-services/multi-faith-prayer-rooms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223085213/https://www.heathrow.com/airport-guide/terminal-facilities-and-services/multi-faith-prayer-rooms |archive-date=23 December 2018 |publisher=Heathrow Airport}}</ref>

The airport has its resident press corps, consisting of six photographers and one TV crew, serving all the major newspapers and television stations around the world.<ref name="Ref_n">{{cite news |date=13 July 2007 |title=Heathrow's hidden gems |agency=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/13/bt.citytips/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=21 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105075832/http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/13/bt.citytips/index.html |archive-date=5 November 2012}}</ref>

Most of Heathrow's internal roads’ names are coded by their first letter: N in the north (e.g. Newall Road), E in the east (e.g. Elmdon Road), S in the south (e.g. Stratford Road), W in the west (e.g. Walrus Road), C in the centre (e.g. Camborne Road).