Re: London gets a new airport... 60 miles away in Oxford


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London gets a new airport... 60 miles away in Oxford
...

London Stansted airport, in Essex, is just over 40 miles from the
capital, while London Luton, in Bedfordshire, is 35 miles away.

Other airports in the region that use the name "London" include City;
Gatwick (28 miles); Biggin Hill in Kent (15 miles); Southend in Essex
(40 miles); and London Ashford airport in Lydd, Kent (56 miles).

Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted are the official airports. City and
Biggin
Hill are actually in London, while Southend has a long history of being
London's main freight airport before Stansted opened. Renaming Lydd was
criticised at the time as it has even worse communications with London
than
Oxford.

What makes those airports "official"?

The Government spent public money to develop them as airports to serve the
Capital. .

So airports like City and Luton don't receive any government
money?

Colin's post used the past tense.

Airports haven't received Government money for ages (though some receive
local authority money)

tim



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