Heathrow is the world's first 'imaginary friend friendly' airport

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Heathrow Airport has decided to go the extra mile and start catering for children’s imaginary friends.

In a bid to be more "imaginary friend friendly", the airport has released a six-minute video featuring airport staff showing exactly how imaginary friends should be treated while travelling through their airport.

The video features a train ticket steward ensuring a child’s imaginary friend is ticketed and accounted for, that there’s room on the shuttle bus and even space at dinner for an extra pal.

The idea came after research shows that one in three British children still have an imaginary friend, and that 68 per cent of them will take said pal on holiday with them.

The video is voiced by Chris O'Dowd, who stars in Moone Boy, which centres around a boy with an imaginary friend.