The video shows the fast motion footage shot near one of the runways for half an hour: planes land one after the other, with the interval of about a minute. Heathrow takes in about 1,300 planes a day. In the rush hour, air traffic controllers sometimes have to land one plane every 45 seconds.

London is served by six major airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, London City, and Southend), making its airspace some of the busiest in the world. At Heathrow alone—the busiest of the six—a plane lands or takes off approximately every 45 to 60 seconds during peak operating hours. Across all six airports, there are over 3,000 aircraft movements per day in a typical year. This means that if you were to look at the sky over the London metropolitan area at any given moment during the day, there are likely dozens of planes in various stages of descent. Heathrow is particularly famous for its "stacking" patterns, where incoming flights circle in four specific zones before being cleared for their final approach. Because of strict noise regulations, landings at most London airports are restricted between 11:30 PM and 6:00 AM, leading to an incredibly dense schedule of arrivals the moment the "night curfew" lifts each morning.