By Guy Taylor London’s Heathrow airport has said a new £10 charge for visa-exempt passengers travelling through the hub is a “huge blow,” despite reporting a second consecutive month of record passenger traffic. Some 6.7m passengers passed through the hub in March, up eight per cent and bringing the year to date figure to 18.5m. North American and European Union and trips made up the lionshare of the total, at 1.6m and 2.1m respectively. Trips to the Asia Pacific region soared 18 per cent to 892,000. But Heathrow’s chief executive Thomas Woldbye called on the government to “exempt airside tran…
