Royal wedding drives Heathrow Airport to 'busiest ever' May
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The royal wedding in which Prince Harry married Meghan led to Heathrow Airport recording its busiest ever May.
Just under 6.7m passengers travelled through the airport last month, a 3.1% increase compared with 2017.
Wedding watchers from the US travelling to Windsor pushed up numbers 5% on North American flights, the airport said.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex married at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on 19 May.
The airport's figures come a week after Heathrow was given the go-ahead by the Cabinet to build a third runway.
MPs will be given a vote on the scheme in the coming weeks.
There were 426,000 journeys on domestic routes, a 5.5% increase, led by flights to and from Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leeds, the airport added.
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