In message , at 21:38:35 on Sun, 14 Mar
2010, Roland Perry remarked:
However, Paris is (by a considerable margin) the most popular
destination from Heathrow, with 60 flights a day (despite Eurostar).

Second most popular are Amsterdam and Dublin (50 flights), after which
comes Frankfurt (40 flights), New York (42 flights), Edinburgh (40
flights), Manchester (36 flights), Brussels (30 flights), Glasgow (28
flights) and Aberdeen (also 28 flights).

Looking at the continental destinations, this emphasises the
hub-and-spoke nature of airline operations. Apart from Brussels (are
you sure of that figure - it seems very high), they are all places
where people routinely catch onwards flights.

re Brussels... I make it 11 flights. And a AR8 isn't exactly the biggest
plane in the world.

I think I demand a re-count for the other destinations! (Are you perhaps
being fooled by codeshares - but that only brings LHR-BRU up to 22
"flights"??)

SN 2104 Brussels Airlines 6:50 AM AR8
BA 388 British Airways 6:55 AM 319
SN 2092 Brussels Airlines 8:30 AM AR8
AA 108 American Airlines 8:30 AM 763
BA 392 British Airways 8:55 AM 320
SN 2094 Brussels Airlines 10:50 AM AR8
BA 396 British Airways 12:50 PM 319
UA 938 United Airlines 1:20 PM 777
BA 398 British Airways 3:50 PM 319
BA 404 British Airways 5:40 PM 319
SN 2102 Brussels Airlines 8:15 PM AR8
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Roland Perry