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On 23 May 1974 Air France began scheduled A300 operations, premiering the first twin-engine wide-body airliner on its Paris to London Heathrow trunk route with two round trips.

British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.

On 16 August 1989 Qantas' first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA City of Canberra, flew non-stop from London Heathrow to Sydney in 20 hours 9 minutes, setting FAI distance and speed records. It landed with under 900 kg of fuel to spare.

The Boeing 777 entered commercial service on 7 June 1995 when United Airlines flew its first Pratt & Whitney-powered 777-200 between London Heathrow and Washington.

Virgin Atlantic's A340-600, the longest airliner in the world at 75.3 m, flew its first commercial service from Heathrow to New York JFK on 1 August 2002. It was the first of ten, a US$1.9 billion order.

A Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner flew 11,664 nautical miles nonstop from Hong Kong to London on 9-10 November 2005, the longest flight by an unmodified commercial airliner.

A fire at the North Hyde electrical substation in Hayes cut power to Heathrow on 21 March 2025, closing Europe's busiest airport for about 16 hours and disrupting around 200,000 passengers.