Ardian Becomes Heathrow’s Largest Shareholder

Justin Lee

Singapore

January 30, 2025

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The year 2024 saw Ardian exiting the Italian airport market as an investor and re-allocating its resources to the United Kingdom as London Heathrow Airport’s largest shareholder.

London Heathrow Airport handled total of 83.9 million passengers in 2024, up by three million compared to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. 

New York, LA, Dublin and Madrid were among the top destinations in 2024 for Heathrow passengers, as the airport maintained the status of most connected airport in the world.

2025 has had a strong start and the airport forecasts 84.2 million passengers over the full year.

While Heathrow’s fully-year financial performance data for 2024 has not been released, in December 2024, it had forecast that its revenue for the year 2024 would decrease by 5.1% to GBP3,499mn. The lower revenue is attributed to a 10.1% decrease in aeronautical income to GBP2.2bn due to by lower charges set by the CAA.

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