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London’s ridiculous number of airports

- and most aren’t even near London

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Ben West
Feb 28, 2024
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Did you know that there are 22 airports that are considered to be London airports?

Most of them are not for normal holiday and business travel but are instead for general aviation (such as used by private jets and for recreational flying) and include Blackbushe Airport in deepest Hampshire, yet dubbed ‘London’s most efficient airport’, and London Elst…

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