Amaro Arobaga and Oliver Herrmann watch aircraft land at Heathrow - John Lawrence I check the time and realise that I’ve been hanging around London’s premier plane-spotting hub for longer than ...

Friends Amaro Arobaga and Oliver Herrmann first met at Heathrow Credit: John Lawrence “It’s not a common interest,” admits Oliver, though he has 27,000 plane-spotting followers on TikTok.

She likes [plane-spotting] but not that much ... Oliver and Amaro met at 27R – Heathrow’s northern runway – and have been friends since. They’re down here most weekends.