London Airport (LHR): terminals, flights, arrivals and departures

London Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL) is a network point for London, UK. Our catalogue shows 0 departing routes and 1 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

LHR carries 1 routes and 2 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 7 weekly departures. London Heathrow Airport (ICAO EGLL) serves London, the United Kingdom, in the Europe/London zone (UTC+1 in July). Its coordinates (51.4706, -0.46194) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: LHR
• ICAO: EGLL
• City: London
• Country: UK
• Time zone: Europe/London
• Coordinates: 51.4706, -0.46194
• Airlines at the airport: 2

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, London runs 7 h ahead of the Mexican capital (UTC+1 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC+0, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

Base of British Airways. An airline basing here means aircraft and crews overnighting at the airport: more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto, and more early departures. The flip side is that at an airport dominated by one carrier the competitive pressure on fares is weaker than where several compete.

What each code is for. The IATA code (LHR) is what the bag tag and the ticket use; the ICAO code (EGLL) is what flight plans, NOTAMs and flight trackers use. To follow the inbound aircraft that will become your flight, ICAO is the one that returns reliable results. And if LHR is not printed on your bag tag, the bag was not checked through to here — worth catching at the counter.

Airlines at LHR

2 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from LHR: 2 full-service and 0 low-cost, with checked allowance from 23 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam, oneworld. They cover 1 catalogued routes and 7 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

How this list is built. These are the airlines appearing in catalogued routes that touch LHR, not the airport’s full directory: a carrier that flies here but not on a pair we cover does not appear. The type — full-service or low-cost — and the allowance come from our own record for each carrier, and where the datum does not exist we say so rather than filling it with a plausible number.

2 kg separate the most generous operator from the leanest at LHR. That gap is what reorders prices once the bag is in: a cheaper base fare on a carrier with no included baggage can land above a full-service one the moment you check a single piece. Compare the total, not the headline figure.

Routes to London (LHR)

Our catalogue lists 1 routes into LHR, totalling 7 weekly departures and spanning 8,904 to 8,904 km. The busiest is MEX-LHR at ~7 flights a week; 0 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic LHR moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Mexico-Europe corridor (VFR and Camino) (1). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 1 routes listed, 0 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Connection tips

LHR concentrates 7 catalogued weekly departures across 2 airlines, in the Europe/London zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

London Heathrow Airport runs on the Europe/London time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at LHR is MEX-LHR (~7 flights a week). Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from London; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

FAQ

The 8 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for LHR: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for London airport? The IATA code is LHR and the ICAO code is EGLL. London Heathrow Airport serves London, UK.

Which airlines operate at LHR? Airlines on our catalogued routes at LHR: British Airways, Aeromexico.

How many routes are there from London (LHR)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes and 1 arriving at LHR — see the tables above.

What time zone is LHR in? LHR operates in the Europe/London time zone.

How many weekly departures does LHR have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching LHR we count 7 weekly departures over 2 airlines and 1 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between London and Mexico City? In July, London runs 7 h ahead of Mexico City (UTC+1 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at LHR? Catalogued routes at LHR span 8,904 to 8,904 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

Which airlines are based at LHR? British Airways run LHR as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.