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I'm sure when HS2 is done, we will see London Birmingham Airport

why doesn't London have 7 airports?

Hey, as a Londoner, just thought I'd make some nerdy corrections 1. It's a really weird one, but Greater London (the boundary shown) is not technically a city, it's a county. 2. A lot of the traffic coming through London Airports doesn't actually use London at all. A lot of people travelling through London Airports are making connections to other flights 3. The main reason (as mentioned by someone else in the comments) that London airports are called London Airports is because of branding and advertising. Calling them London Airports makes them sound close to London, and therefore might encourage foreign travellers to travel to those airports. There's many other examples of these, that aren't included on the list (such as London Oxford and London Ashford) 4. This isn't said specifically in the video, but it is implied. Heathrow wasn't meant to be built around residential areas. Heathrow got there first, then residential areas were built around it. 5. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="453">7:33</a> The Millenium Bridge and Tate Modern are not close to City Airport

La is a bit crazy too with 5 airports, LAX, SNA, ONT, BUR, LGB.

nah i would way prefer london with 6 airports than 1 large one, so I can pick which airport to fly from each time depending on whether its a short trip to Europe or long haul one. It also introduces tiered pricing between airports so I can get a cheaper ticket simply by flying from another airport. Not to mention different loung amenities, comfort levels and travelling durations.

Because other Cities in Asia only built airport only after the rise of Civil Aviation. Their strategy is more airlines hub oriented where you concentrate as much traffic to one hub as possible where the flag carrier is located. If they wanted to build a new airport typically they abandoned the old one and repurpose the land for urban development.

Gatwick was an international airport before the war it was a subsidiary airport for the original Croydon Airport which Heathrow replaced.

It would have been worth it to mention the airports are also due to very high demand - London until only recently usurped as the worlds most popular tourist destination, and 170 million air passengers pa (180m before pandemic). The runways are some of the most used at absolute capacity -Gatwick recently usurped as the world's busiest single runway by Delhi, and a famous insta-shot of several planes lining up to land on clear days.

Thanks for the informative video! Oxford Airport also rebranded to London Oxford Airport in 2009...so I think London now has 7 airports now.

Interesting and thank you for answering a question I had about all the London airports. I had it in my head that the reason was that London was a hub of all traffic destined to North America. Originally, I am from the Los Angeles basin in California. What is LAX, the international funnel to traffic bound for the west coast but also Asia. The airport location was the US defense of the Pacific Theater during the war. But a lot of housing in Los Angeles had/was creeping closer to the coast, and what was coming into Long Beach harbor (very close to the new LAX) was commercial shipping that was booming after the war also. The Los Angeles basin sported an Air Force airport that was winding down after the Vietnam war, large enough to be about the same size area that LAX takes. It was in the center of Orange county, about 40 miles (64km) south of LAX. A perfect location. That is until Orange County leadership looked at what a mess LAX had made of everything, and that same mess looked like what the OC location of an international airport might turn into if plans went forward. Air traffic would be going over some of the most desirable, scenic and some of the most popular beaches in the world. Orange County put up the Mother of All NIMBY campaigns (Not In My Back Yard). We could argue that Money Talks, which whether we like it or not, in a capitalist society, it does. Fancy shops, multi-million dollar homes and restaurants that makes your eyes bleed when you see the price of a hamburger--it makes my socialist heart burst into flames to defend people that should be denuded of their millions, but, gosh, even rich people have rights. Ontario International--I believe the last piece of big government property available in the Los Angeles basin, though I think it is closer to Las Vegas, Nevada than LA, lol. If you have ever watch TV movies and TV shows from the 1960-1980s involving someone coming in/leaving an anonymous-looking third world country airport, Ontario would be the location it would be shot at. They have it blueprinted to allow for future expansion, to hopefully relieve problems before they happen. BrightLine is constructing a high-speed rail between Lost Wages and LA. All of this might relieve some of the horrendous traffic between LA and Las Vegas. Driving that little patch of road was one of the last things I did before I fled LA. 225 miles (361km) through unending bland suburbs, then through part of the Mojave desert to Sin City. That's 225 miles, 361 kilometers of stop and go driving. Children are born on interstate 15! For all I know the McDonald's, off the next exit~! might even have a baptismal font. Great show with a lot of information I have heard first, here! Thank you for your efforts!

Berlin had 3 commercial airports 20 year ago. Now we are down to 1.

30 seconds of information packed into a 10 minute time robber.

Paris has 4 airports with ORY, CDG, BVA and XCR (which is more cargo oriented but still has passengers)

Technically London only has one airport, ie London city airport the others has London for branding

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Why don’t they build underground high speed Maglev trains 🚆 to connect all 6 airports that can travel 600km per hour. That way passengers can fly say to South End Airport and take a Maglev train to London Heathrow which will take maybe 10 minutes with a high speed Maglev. Then they can board the next flight in Heathrow airport. Maybe the solution is to not expand these airports but connect all these airports as one with Maglev Trains because Maglev are the fastest trains available. These Maglev Trains can all make a stop in the city center so that way passengers that are connecting can get to the right airport in 10 minutes but passengers traveling to London they can get off at the Maglev Train Stop in the city center. So with Maglev trains just for the airports it won’t make much difference which airport a passenger flies to.

There is room for a 2nd Runway at Gatwick and room to expand at Gatwick

London could take the Osaka Kansai or the Seoul Incheon route and make an artificial island and build a mega hub in it, although it probably is gonna be expensive.

If they're closing some airports, they can be converted to like racing tracks

The war. Saved you 10 minutes. They used to be airfields

Beijing's new Daxing airport, which will eventually become the world's busiest, was built at a cost of £9 billion. To put that into perspective, building a third runway at Heathrow is projected to cost £14 billion (the cost projection was as of 2019 and work has not begun yet)

Some major inaccuracies. London HAD more than one International Airport and some domestic airports before Healthrow and the war. The main airport was London Croydon, with Heston also serving many international flights, and domstic routes on gatwick, hounslow, and others. Originally in the Heathrow area, there was a small aerodrome (great west aerodrome) built in 1929 for the Fairey Aviation Company. Whilst the Government started developing the area in 1944 for an airport for long distance military aircraft, however, by the time any construction was complete the war was over and development continued as a civil airport. Comtemporary discussions suggest that the minister in charge always intended it to be a civil airport anyway, but used the military aspect initially to get the funding and go ahead. After heathrow opened, Croydon, Heston, hounslow and others closed. Gatwick later expanded to become what ti is now, though the original "beehive" terminal still exists as a commercial property south of the runways.

NYC metro also has 6; JFK, EWR, LGA, ISP, TED and FRD

Thank you for sharing.

Airports should be built on coast not inland where planes Fly over populated areas!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="30">0:30</a> istanbul has 2 airports, istanbul and sabiha gokcen, but sabiha gokcen mostly serves domestic or budget airlines, meanwhile istanbul servers the most flights

I've departed NYC on commercial flights from: Newark, JFK, LaGuardia, Stewart and MacArthur. White Plains is a sixth commercial NYC airport.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="369">6:09</a> Houston has 8 total runways between both airports. You only highlighted 2 at Hobby Int'l Airport. Hobby technically had 4 but now 3 one is out of service. You left out runway 30R/12L

LA metro has 6 with LAX, Burbank, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Ontario and San Bernardino. Then also several GA airports.

I wouldn't be surprised that London will assign Heathrow for long-distance international flights only and Gatwick for shorter distance international flights. Gatwick could get a major upgrade to the Gatwick Express train so it could handle the increased traffic for the shorter distance international flights. London is also very fortunate for the opening of the Channel Tunnel, which makes it possible for long-distance high-speed trains from continental Europe to service London itself. We could get a lot more high-speed rail service through the Channel Tunnel, though that may require some rebuilding of London St. Pancras Station to accommodate the increased international high-speed rail traffic.

Oops, I thought I had come to Jay Foreman. I’m pretty sure he has covered this before. Right! See ya.

It doesn’t - it has 2 - City, Heathrow. Gatwick is good for the people in the South (the only ones that actually matter outside of London) and the rest, well… Stansted and Luton are awful places with awful people and Southend is basically Finland. Glad I could clear that up ✈️

London closed busy Croydon airport in 1959.

Great info

Basically in narrows down to ineffective planning without foreseeing the future.

Manston Airport in Kent will be reopening in 2025 it has one of the longest runways.

Please make a video about Kuala Lumpur International Airport a.k.a KLIA

But I do think the uk had done some methods that other countries didn’t do is that they have built airports in other parts of the country and so people that may not live near the center of the city center can travel less time to their nearest airport for their start of the trip

Toronto has 3 airports: - Toronto Pearson International (7 runways, 8th one being added very soon) - Billy Bishop (Downtown Toronto) 2 runways - Hamilton International (3 runways)

TLDR: Bad planning, kinda. The fact that London got into the game of aviation very early on, when it was the 3rd biggest city in the world, meant that there wasn't a lot of land around, even back then. Also, as mentioned, nobody knew how big flying would become or more importantly, how big planes and airports would become (people thought that air travel would be much more point-to-point than it ended up being). By the time the government realised the way things were going, the greenbelt had been established and there were many settlements around London that had been there for 1000s of years, with a lot of history to preserve. Also, while London itself is relatively flat, a lot of the land around London that isn't currently built on is quite undulating, and would require a lot of earthworks to flatten a big area out for building an airport. The only land that IS flat, is in the east (Thames estuary), and that is the worst location for accessing the rest of the country on land, because anyone who wants to travel on to other cities would have to travel around London to get there, or they'd have to build a massive tunnel under the Thames. Boris Johnson was campaigning to build a new airport over there at a location called Cliffe, but it was deemed unworkable for many reasons. Finally there's the aspect of climate change and how really we should be building more high speed rail for short to medium length journeys and making better use of things like the Channel Tunnel to get to Europe, rather than adding more flights.

Moscow has four airports: SVO, DME, VKO and ZIA.

YOu missed out London Biggin Hill and London Farnborough Airports.

You forgot the private airports like biggin hill for private jets

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="59">0:59</a> This is Greater London. London City (“the City”) is 1.5 square miles in the middle of Greater London.

In Sri lanka most of the current Airports are formerly british air bases

Why not close Heathrow and expand Manston Airport in Kent where there is lot of room to expand.

Paris have 4 commercial airport not 2 there are : Charles de gaule / orly / (low cost ) beauvais like luton and stansted . And it also own like london a last airport : Paris le bourget ( there is a very popular airshow here ) this airport is like london city with only bussiness jets and sometimes airliner but it's very rare

Icl, London is really lacking in airports- hopefully with this new government they can finally build like 10 more or something

How do Americans distinguish between route and rout.

You forgot London Oxford Airport.

London is now so widespread that air travel is the easiest means of getting from A-B-C.

Is it safe to say that LCY is to London as LGA is to New York?

but the only airports that are in london are heathrow and city

6 airports but in total only 7 runways. Chicago O hare alone has 8 runways.

The fact that Southend Airport is called "London Southend" and doesn't really serve any customers in London tells the answer. It's simply marketing.

It’s because of our obsession with air travel. It’s got to stop soon though

It’s strange how this guy pronounces ‘route’ as if it were ‘rout’

Because they don't have 7.

London Gatwick is the preferred airport for many people

Croydon airport?

It’s illegal for it to be a good and proper airport <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="48">0:48</a>

technically it has seven because biggin hill

Paris has 3 airports

Heathrow is (I believe) the only airport with over 70M passengers per year with only 2 runways. Massive bottleneck to growth.

Paris has 3 airport Don't forget about Beauvais

Paris CDG is an absolute shithole with the only link into Paris being the Uber or the hugely unreliable B. The best airport for a kick-arse take off is LCY. E190 sports car take-offs are the one. You get a good view of London if you were to do a missed approach. Queue times and getting anywhere in london on the DLR is so convenient. I'd rather fly out of LCY for business trips than LHR, if starting off from Paddington

Sir, Paris has 3 airports.

It has six airports because they can’t expand Heathrow 😂

there is 7 airports in london

There’s 8 London airports

Why? Because 5 was too few.

blud thinks hes jay foreman

Better than the pathetic ewr, jfk and lga

It doesnt😂

We also have London Farnborough,London Biggin and soon to be London Birminingham after HS2 is completed in next 100years😂😂😂. All of this Airport are all outdated and crumbling we just cant compete with the likes of Dubai,China,Turkey with all mordern and 24hr operating Airport. Even Vietnam has better Airport than all London Airport combine.

In summary, London has 6 airports as anything less wouldn’t support the 1.5m migrants arriving each year

As far as I am concerned London has only two airports, Heathrow and City as both are within the boundaries of London. Take Luton airport for instance. , it is owned by the Borough of Luton and has always been a crappy airport. Then they changed the name to London Luton Airport to, hopefully, increase business and they actually succeeded but it is still a crappy airport

London does not have 6 airports. Luton, standsted and southend serve East anglia and are mainly holiday makers. The only airports really serving london are city and heathrow

London doesn't have six airports. It has two at most. London City and London Heathrow. In my opinion.

London doesn’t have 6 airports

Pretty sure London doesnt have six airports unless you think London covers the whole of england. Gatwick is gatwick, not london gatwick, its in crawley. Luton is in bedfordshire. stansted is in essex. just because they put the word london before it doesnt means its in friggin London.

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Because Londoners and Englanders don’t care as much about the environment as they the care about their holidays abroad.

All useless they are not 24/24

Probably because we have the biggest amount of immigrants

why is London so overrated?

You should do your research before making these types of videos. Gatwick and Heathrow were built as civilian airports not military . Also in London 8 airports not 6 . You forgot the Biggin Hill and Farnborough airport with most private jets traffic.