On 02/09/2014 18:05, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:42:53 on Tue, 2 Sep
2014, d remarked:
London has:







Heathrow



Gatwick



Luton



Stansted



City



Southend



You forgot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Oxford_Airport



Thats more an airfield than a proper airport - I doubt an airbus could
even

taxi on it , much less land. But if you want to include that then we
shouldn't

forget about Biggin Hill.


I'm including places which market themselves with "London" in the name.

London Ashford.

One of life's big ironies a few years back was a Which? report slagging
off foreign airports that falsely claimed to be close to well known
cities. In the same issue they gave "London Stansted" a ringing
endorsement, despite being further from its eponymous city than any of
the foreign airports they were complaining about.

To a certain extent, distance is less important than transport links.

A distant airport with a fast and easy-to-use train to the city centre
every 30 min, perhaps even a mainline connection to anywhere in the
country, is less of an issue than a edge-of-town airport with a solitary
bus which leaves just before you can reach the stop (and which requires
trawling badly-implemented local authority websites to discover how to
buy, activate, charge-up and use an [insert name of sea creature]-card),
or one where passengers act as a kind of welfare state for the friends
and relations of the taxi drivers.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK