An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable image heating member; a pressing member for forming a nip for heating a the image formed on a recording material; a external heating member for heating externally the image heating member; a duct surrounding the external heating member; and an air separating device for separating the recording material having passed through the nip from the heating member by blowing air supplied from the duct toward the image heating member from a downstream side of the nip with respect to a feeding direction of the recording material.