On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:08:00 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 11:50:51 on Tue, 2 Sep
2014, Someone Somewhere remarked:
I haven't looked at the schedules but I can well believe every London
airport has several flights a day to particular european destinations
that could easily be consolidated into less "movements" in larger, more
efficient, planes if that were the case.

Heathrow/Gatwick don't have flights to very many European destinations.
That market is dominated by low-cost airlines from other airports.

That's certainly true of the holiday resorts, but the major European
cities tend to have flights to Heathrow and Gatwick.

Also, don't forget that easyJet is now Gatwick's major airline, thus
reinforcing its position as being much less of a business airport than
Heathrow. Indeed, BA, which dominated the North terminal when it first
opened, will soon be squeezed out of that terminal, into the older
South terminal.