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Airport Wars: Heathrow versus Gatwick

Airport Wars: Heathrow versus Gatwick

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London’s Heathrow Airport is the only airport in the advanced world serving a national capital which subsists on just two runways – one for landings and one for take offs. And thus which runs continuously at flat-out full capacity. It handles 70 million passengers and 480,000 flights per year, flying to 184 destinations. That’s one…