{"id":19191,"date":"2022-08-08T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=19191"},"modified":"2024-05-21T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:53:39","slug":"london-airports-top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/london-airports-top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"London Airports Top Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s some basic info we put together on the London Airport options, made with help from the London Underground tube map publishers, circa 1962.<\/p>\n

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How many airports are there around London?<\/h4>\n

Well, you have the big international ones – EGLL\/Heathrow, EGKK\/Gatwick and EGSS\/Stansted.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then you have EGMC\/Southend<\/strong> which is also quite big but a bit less big really, it mainly just serves European routes really. Same for EGGW\/Luton.<\/strong> FYI – both of these are officially \u2018London\u2019 as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then you have smaller or predominantly business aviation airports – EGLC\/London City, EGLF\/Farnborough<\/strong> (not a London, but closeish), EGTK\/Oxford Kidlington<\/strong> (this is a London), EGKB\/Biggin Hill<\/strong> (really near London but not called London) and EGWU\/Northolt<\/strong> (8nm from Heathrow and actually a military base).<\/p>\n

Back in 2015, the UK handled something like 2 million flights a year and 1.2 million of them were in and out of the 5 main London airports.<\/strong> In fact, here\u2019s a cool video of 24 hours in London (also from 2015 so probably wildly inaccurate at this point, but has some nice neon colours.)<\/p>\n