Heathrow targets pre-Covid traffic despite headwinds

London's Heathrow Airport expressed hope of a return to pre-pandemic traffic, while cautioning over resurgent Covid infections, Ukraine fallout and recession threats. Almost 5.8 million passengers passed through the hub in September, down 15 per cent from the same month in 2019, or six months before Covid-19 took hold worldwide. "Our focus over the next 12 months is to get capacity, service levels and resilience back to the high levels that they were before the pandemic," Heathrow said in a statement. The "demand outlook remains uncertain, with growing economic headwinds, a new wave of Covid and the escalating situation in Ukraine", it added. -- AFP