On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 06:23:30PM -0500, Recliner wrote:

Many Heathrow passengers come from locations other than Central London. I
live in West London, and Heathrow is far more convenient than any other
airport. Gatwick is only good for people near Victoria or Thameslink
stations.

You might as well say that Heathrow is only good for people near
Paddington and sheep-fancying farmers from Oo-arr-shire.

If you lived in, for example, Hastings, which airport would you prefer
to go to? Obviously Gatwick, yet Hastings is neither near Victoria or a
Thameslink station.

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On 2014-09-03 12:41:52 +0000, David Cantrell said:

If you lived in, for example, Hastings, which airport would you prefer
to go to? Obviously Gatwick, yet Hastings is neither near Victoria or a
Thameslink station.

There are modes of transport other than trains. Luton and Stansted are
mainly reached by car and taxi, and serve a wide area of the Home
Counties and East Anglia as such. Indeed Luton is to a fairly
significant extent a "South Midlands and Home Counties Airport" rather
than a London one.

Neil
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On 03/09/2014 15:11, Neil Williams wrote:

On 2014-09-03 12:41:52 +0000, David Cantrell said:

If you lived in, for example, Hastings, which airport would you prefer
to go to? Obviously Gatwick, yet Hastings is neither near Victoria or a
Thameslink station.

There are modes of transport other than trains. Luton and Stansted are
mainly reached by car and taxi, and serve a wide area of the Home
Counties and East Anglia as such. Indeed Luton is to a fairly
significant extent a "South Midlands and Home Counties Airport" rather
than a London one.

Incorrect for Stansted, which had 51% of pax using public transport
(bus, coach and rail) in 2013 - see page 23:
http://www.stanstedairport.com/media/1220647/sustainable-development-plan-surface-access-online-lr-20.08.14.pdf

Luton meanwhile had 32% of pax using public transport in 2010 - page 21,
PDF page 11:
http://www.london-luton.co.uk/en/download/179/Airport%20Surface%20Access%20Strategy.pdf

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2014-09-03 12:41:52 +0000, David Cantrell said:

If you lived in, for example, Hastings, which airport would you prefer
to go to? Obviously Gatwick, yet Hastings is neither near Victoria or a
Thameslink station.

There are modes of transport other than trains. Luton and Stansted
are mainly reached by car and taxi, and serve a wide area of the Home
Counties and East Anglia as such. Indeed Luton is to a fairly
significant extent a "South Midlands and Home Counties Airport"
rather than a London one.

It's not a convenient airport to reach from Cambridge. It might be if there
was better public transport between there and Hitchin.

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 03:11:30PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2014-09-03 12:41:52 +0000, David Cantrell said:
If you lived in, for example, Hastings, which airport would you prefer
to go to? Obviously Gatwick, yet Hastings is neither near Victoria or a
Thameslink station.
There are modes of transport other than trains.

True. By any other mode of transport Gatwick would still be preferable
to Heathrow for people from a very large part of the south east.

Luton and Stansted

I was specifically talking about Heathrow and Gatwick and the places
from which one is preferable to t'other.

are
mainly reached by car and taxi, and serve a wide area of the Home
Counties and East Anglia as such.

It doesn't matter how they're reached. Almost all places from where
Gatwick is preferable to Heathrow, Gatwick is also preferable to Luton
and Stansted. The exceptions being places on the Thameslink line north
of, roughly, Blackfriars.

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On 2014-09-04 11:40:56 +0000, David Cantrell said:

It doesn't matter how they're reached. Almost all places from where
Gatwick is preferable to Heathrow, Gatwick is also preferable to Luton
and Stansted. The exceptions being places on the Thameslink line north
of, roughly, Blackfriars.

Or the WCML where we have the "via Kensington Olympia" options.

Neil
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