{"id":230272,"date":"2026-08-11T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/istanbul-overtakes-heathrow-as-europes-busiest-airport-after-london-hub-sees-passenger-numbers-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:50:03","slug":"istanbul-overtakes-heathrow-as-europes-busiest-airport-after-london-hub-sees-passenger-numbers-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/istanbul-overtakes-heathrow-as-europes-busiest-airport-after-london-hub-sees-passenger-numbers-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul overtakes Heathrow as Europe\u2019s busiest airport after London hub sees passenger numbers fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heathrow has been knocked off the top spot for the first time since 2023, with Istanbul handling almost 300,000 more passengers in July as the London airport pushes ahead with plans for a third runway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2026\/08\/11\/istanbul-overtakes-heathrow-as-europes-busiest-airport-after-london-hub-sees-passenger-num\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heathrow has been knocked off the top spot for the first time since 2023, with Istanbul handling almost 300,000 more passengers in July as the London airport pushes ahead with plans for a third runway. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":230273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}