Tag: airports

The Future Of London’s Airports? An Unfinished London Look

In his last Unfinished London video, Jay Foreman looked at why London has so many airports. In Unfinished London – Episode 3 (Part 2) above, he looks at what the future may hold for London’s airports given the crazy situation we find ourselves in.

Heathrow expansion, Boris island (which could cost more than £100k) and the frankenstein of Heathwick are all given a look. However, at the end of the day we may not know what the right solution should have been for another 30 years or even if we needed to do anything at all.

What do you think we should do? Or do we need to do anything at all?

Why Does London Have So Many Airports?

After a 3 year hiatus, Jay Foreman’s back with his 3rd Unfinished London video. In his latest installment he explains why London has more airports than any other city in the world. Why does London have 6 international airports? New York and Tokyo, which are much bigger than London, seem to manage just fine with only 2 each.

Well it all comes down to money, forward planning, not forward enough planning and semantics as to what actually counts as a “London” airport. Watch the entertaining and informative video above to learn all about how these forces created the crazy airport landscape we see in London today.

And in case you can’t name London’s 6 international from memory here they are in order of how many passengers they carry each year (numbers from 2013):

  1. Heathrow: 72 million.
  2. Gatwick: 35 million
  3. Stansted: 17 million
  4. Luton: 10 million
  5. London City: 3 million
  6. Southend: 1 million

Watch the video? Good. Do you think we should add London Oxford Airpot, London Ashford Airport, etc. to the list above?