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Pan Am's first Boeing 747 passenger flight left New York for London at 1:52 a.m. EST on 22 January 1970, nearly seven hours late after an engine overheated on the original jet.

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.

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.

British Airways flight BA002 from New York landed at Heathrow at 4:05 p.m. on 24 October 2003, ending 27 years of supersonic passenger service; two more Concordes landed alongside.

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.