The 3 London Airports
There are three big airports in London, that are out of the residential area, within one to two hours of the centre of the British capital. These are Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted. Heathrow, London’s main airport, handles more international flights than any other airport in the world.
Every 45 seconds a plane takes off or lands here and all the four terminals are extremely busy. The airport building itself now resembles a real city whose streets are the long corridors leading to the gates, with fashionable shops, restaurants and waiting areas. Gatwick, a bit further from the centre of London, handles both national and international flights and in the 1980’s another airport was built to relieve the congestion of Heathrow: Stansted.