Heathrow’s new CEO Thomas Woldbye has today taken the helm of the UK’s hub airport following the departure of former CEO John Holland-Kaye.

Woldbye will oversee the airport’s multi-billion pound plans to upgrade its existing facilities over the next three years.

The plans include the aim to offer a better service for passengers, including a “next
generation” security programme and new baggage system for Terminal 2.

Woldbye will spend the coming weeks talking to baggage handlers,
airlines, ground staff and other stakeholders at Heathrow about sustainability, business and politics in an effort to hear how to
further improve the airport.

Heathrow CEO Thomas Woldbye said: “The UK already has a hub airport that is the envy of much of the world. As I spend my first days getting to know the colleagues and Team Heathrow partners who make it a success, I’m looking for how we can make Heathrow even better for our customers and the British economy.

“It’s humbling to have the opportunity to take on the challenge and I’m excited to get started.”

Woldbye succeeds John Holland-Kaye who served as Heathrow’s CEO for more than nine years and saw the hub through its expansion plans, Covid-19, and set it on the path to net zero by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement.