Other nearby airports include London Heathrow (LHR) (14.4 miles), London Gatwick (LGW) (24.5 miles), London Luton (LTN) (28 miles) and London Stansted (STN) (31.4 miles).
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Other airports in the South East of England include Gatwick, London City Airport, Luton, London Southend and Stansted. Important regional airports include Manchester Airport, Birmingham Airport, Liverpool Airport, Bristol Airport, Glasgow International Airport, Leeds Bradford, Edinburgh and Newcastle.
The remaining four international 'London' airports - London Luton, London Stansted, London Southend and London Gatwick - are not actually in the capital. London Ashford Airport and London Oxford Airport, two smaller airports, are also not in London.
It is not as if the city of London planned where to put each airport. They were there when the need for additional capacity appeared; in some cases the airports initially served local municipalities and cargo airlines, later to be used by charter and other airlines when the airports closer to London were full.
Luton (LTN)Like Gatwick and Stansted, London's fourth airport, at Luton, is nearly 30 miles from the city center. Yet despite being the same distance from town, it's the quickest of the three to reach by train (not including the shuttle bus to the terminal).
'London's largest airport, Heathrow, is hemmed in by the suburbs and limited to just two runways,' he explains. 'Because it can't expand, the demand for air travel is met by smaller, single-runway airports around the South-East: Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Southend.
London Southend Airport (SEN)Southend serves the smallest number of passengers of all the airports on the list and is furthest away from the city. The transfer time to central London is also the longest. Depending on your flexibility, you could find cheap flights here with easyJet.
1. Heathrow (LHR) Heathrow Airport, London's main hub, is also one of the world's busiest airports, with 80.1 million passengers coming through in 2018. Spread across five terminals and just 14 miles west of central London, it's the easiest airport for getting into town.
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