Heathrow Airport

aid: heathrow-airport
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heathrow-airport/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Heathrow Airport
kind: company
humanURL: https://www.heathrow.com/
description: Heathrow Airport Limited operates London Heathrow (IATA LHR, ICAO EGLL), the United Kingdom's principal international
  hub and Europe's busiest airport by passenger numbers, under the ultimate ownership of FGP Topco Limited - whose largest
  shareholder since December 2024 is Ardian, alongside Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and a residual Ferrovial holding.
  In the travel distribution chain Heathrow is infrastructure, not an intermediary - it sells no seats, holds no bookable
  inventory, issues no PNRs or e-tickets, and sits entirely outside the GDS and IATA NDC value chain, earning aeronautical
  charges, retail concessions, car parking and property income instead. Its API posture is unusual for an airport - Heathrow
  does run a real, branded, publicly reachable developer portal at developer.heathrow.com, built on Microsoft Azure API Management,
  which publicly describes three products in prose - Flights, Flight Connections and Weather - but publishes no OpenAPI, no
  endpoint reference, no rate limits, no pricing and no SLA to anonymous visitors. The API catalogue and Products list return
  empty to unauthenticated callers, sign-in is via Azure Active Directory, and the portal's own How It Works page requires
  a prospective developer to email support@heathrow.com and be enrolled before any access is granted. The gateway at api.heathrow.com
  goes further and rejects requests with "400 No required SSL certificate was sent", meaning mutual TLS with a Heathrow-issued
  client certificate. So - public docs, gated contracts, no exit path beyond a UK GDPR data portability request to privacy@heathrow.com.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: application-approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Documented APIs · Enrolment and Azure AD account required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - developer-portal
  - terms
  generated: '2026-07-28'
  method: probed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Travel
- United Kingdom
- Airports
- Aviation
- Airport Infrastructure
- Flight Information
- Transportation
- Passenger Experience
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-07-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: heathrow-airport:heathrow-flights-api
  name: Heathrow Flights API
  description: Heathrow's Flights API provides up to date information on real time flights to and from Heathrow, covering
    destinations, arrivals, airlines, aircraft types, flight status, gates and terminals, with scheduled flight information
    enriched by real-time gate and terminal updates. Described publicly on the Heathrow developer portal; the endpoint reference
    and machine-readable contract are visible only to enrolled, Azure AD authenticated accounts.
  humanURL: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-flights
  baseURL: https://api.heathrow.com/
  tags:
  - Flights
  - Flight Status
  - Arrivals
  - Departures
  - Aviation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-flights
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/
  - type: Onboarding
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/how-it-works
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/signin
- aid: heathrow-airport:heathrow-connections-api
  name: Heathrow Flight Connections API
  description: Heathrow's Connections API provides up to date information on real time flight connections to and from Heathrow,
    returning connection information together with flight detail. The portal documents four query shapes - flight to flight,
    flight to terminal, terminal to terminal, and terminal to flight. Described publicly on the Heathrow developer portal;
    the endpoint reference and machine-readable contract are visible only to enrolled, Azure AD authenticated accounts.
  humanURL: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-connections
  baseURL: https://api.heathrow.com/
  tags:
  - Connections
  - Transfers
  - Terminals
  - Aviation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-connections
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/
  - type: Onboarding
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/how-it-works
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/signin
- aid: heathrow-airport:heathrow-weather-api
  name: Heathrow Weather API
  description: Heathrow's Weather API provides up to date information on weather conditions at most airports worldwide, exposing
    temperature, weather categories, a countries list and lookup of weather by IATA code, positioned as a companion to the
    Flights API for connection and arrival/departure context. Described publicly on the Heathrow developer portal; the endpoint
    reference and machine-readable contract are visible only to enrolled, Azure AD authenticated accounts.
  humanURL: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-weather
  baseURL: https://api.heathrow.com/
  tags:
  - Weather
  - Forecast
  - Aviation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-weather
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/
  - type: Onboarding
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/how-it-works
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.heathrow.com/signin
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/heathrow-airport-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.heathrow.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/apis
- type: Plans
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/products
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/how-it-works
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/signup
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/signin
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/api-changelog
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@heathrow.com
- type: Company
  url: https://www.heathrow.com/company
- type: FlightStatus
  url: https://www.heathrow.com/arrivals
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.heathrow.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.heathrow.com/privacy-notice
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heathrow-airport/
- type: GettingStarted
  name: How It Works - Heathrow API enrolment
  url: https://developer.heathrow.com/how-it-works
- type: Blog
  name: Heathrow Media Centre
  url: https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/
- type: Authentication
  name: Authentication profile
  url: authentication/heathrow-airport-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  name: API conventions
  url: conventions/heathrow-airport-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  name: Standards conformance
  url: conformance/heathrow-airport-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  name: API lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/heathrow-airport-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Changelog capture
  url: changelog/heathrow-airport-changelog.yml
- type: Packages
  name: Client library search
  url: packages/heathrow-airport-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  name: Well-known discovery probes
  url: well-known/heathrow-airport-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: llms.txt
  url: llms/heathrow-airport-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com