The Anonymous Widower

London’s Sixth Airport

London has five airports that use the name.

  • Gatwick – I hate Gatwick with a vengeance, as I’ve never had a pleasureable experience in the airport.
  • Heathrow – I want to avoid Heathrow, as last time I arrived I was in a wheelchair.
  • Stansted – I have many pleasant memories and it’s very easy for me to get to.
  • Luton – It’s a nightmare by car, but then I can’t drive and it’s an easy train drive.
  • City – I’ve never used it, but it’s easy to get to by bus to Bank and then the Docklands Light Railway.

The title of this post was because a friend has to go to the Isle of Man a lot and I wondered why he went from Liverpool. Looking at prices, I would assume it’s cost, as there seem to be lots of flights from Liverpool to the Isle of Man at just under £40.  From London City, the prices seem much higher.

So how would you get to Liverpool Airport from London.  Virgin will do it with one change at somewhere like Crewe in about two and a half hours for £35 from Euston. With me that would be about £80 for the trip.  A train leaves Euston about every half-hour that connects, so you can judge the journey fairly fine.

So on this basis, is Liverpool an alternative airport for those passengers going from London to the Isle of Man and other places served by the airport?

April 9, 2011 - Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , ,

5 Comments »

  1. Clearly, experience colours ones view. My experience of Heathrow is dreadful. I remmeber the ’70s spending hours in the early hours of the morning waiting for luggage, and the drive to Heathrow is so unpredicatable that one either arrives with hours to spare or misses flights. I have done both. Gatwick on the other hand has a train service that reliably gets me right to the airport, it is less crowded, and I have not yet had a bad experience having used it mant times on trips to Cincinnati and Atlanta where we used to have offices. Stansted is fine as it has good car parking, a train service that takes you right into the airport, the Raddison Hotel right next to departures for those with an early departure. It does lack speed of service through departures and there are long walks to the gates. Luton is not too bad and it does have good access for traffic. The M1 J10 has a road that bypasses Luton and feeds vehicles straight to the carparks that are quite close to the airport. There is a train station at the airport with services from the north and south, but has the same departure processing delays as Stansted. I have never used City airport as it doesn’t have good access from outside London and doesn’t ever appear as a suggested route to anywhere I want to go when I search for flights on the Internet.
    I would like to get rid of all of them and have a single airport down on the south coast away from all habitation. Planes could take off and land over the sea to avoid nuisance and danger to others, and a high speed rail link to major cities would provide the transport infrastructure for access. A similar approach in the Midlands, the North and Scotland would see all the country sorted for air/rail transport.

    Comment by John | April 9, 2011 | Reply

  2. James,
    You forgot London(Oxford) airport. I kid you not. Go to web page!

    Comment by Jim s | April 11, 2011 | Reply

  3. Why no London Southend? (It’s certainly bigger than ^’oxford’)

    Comment by Dan | September 15, 2011 | Reply

    • I have a feeling Southend was actually lauched after I wrote this.

      Comment by AnonW | September 15, 2011 | Reply

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