London has four very busy airports and one quieter inner city airport that means that the airspace around the South East of London is extraordinarily busy. It did make me wonder where you can actually fly from London to.
London Heathrow is supposed to be the busiest airport in the world for international traffic (although that seems a very flexible claim) and London Gatwick is supposed to be one of the busiest single runway airports in the world. London Stansted is no slouch (busier than most city's airports) and London Luton is the size of most city's only airports too. London City is small but perfectly placed for the money men at Canary Wharf and quite a nice little airport too.
Wikipedia is great for keeping a relatively up-to-date list of airlines and destinations from most world airports but I couldn't see any map on the general internet showing all the places you can get to from all the main London airports - there's quite a few showing from one airport or another and once showing UK destinations but I couldn't see any showing all the destinations so...
...in an extremely slow news day (yes, I was very bored), I used Wikipedia, Excel, and Google Maps to create this map showing around 400 destinations. Obviously not the definitive map and some of the flights are seasonal (summer and winter) but better than nothing. It's also a "line in the sand" type of map - probably getting obsolete by the second. I hope someone finds it handy or interesting though:
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| Destinations from London Airports |
While not a plane-spotter myself, I am a bit of a transport nerd so I'm always curious about what's flying overhead, and where it's heading too/from and PinkFroot's Plane Finder iPhone app is superb for that.
