{"id":238282,"date":"2025-06-19T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airport-jet-age-largest-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:00:16","slug":"the-airport-that-launched-the-jet-age-is-now-the-largest-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=238282","title":{"rendered":"The Airport That Launched The Jet Age Is Now The Largest In Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Heathrow Airport (LHR) has long been one of the powerhouse airports in Europe. Since its humble beginnings as a pre-World War II airfield, Heathrow has grown into Europe&#8217;s busiest airport, consistently handling over 80 million passengers each year. As a base for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"129483\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-atlantic\/\"  >Virgin Atlantic<\/a><\/span>, LHR oversaw its busiest year in 2024 and continues to break records this year, most recently when it registered its busiest-ever month of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Airport, as it was known at the time, saw off the first-ever jet-powered commercial flight in 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,8556,1022,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-de-havilland-comet","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238283,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238282\/revisions\/238283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}